Winter Mail Forwarding
We were gone ~6wks this winter. Fortunately our local post office allowed us to hold mail the whole time even though the policy is only for 30days. Next year we hope to miss all of the below zero ...
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Hi,
Do you have a neighbor or close friend that can take your mail? You can have it forwarded to your kids place, or other address for a time, then change it back to your house later. Your home will still get all the 'resident' mail at your home, and you probably can have a neighbor kid take that to the trash, or save it for your later sorting and trash it.
You can also rent a mailbox at someplace like the UPS store. Then forward all your bills and important stuff to that mailbox, and anything else can sit inside a really big mailbox at your home. You can buy a king size locking mailbox - about 16" square, and hold a lot of junk mail in it, empty it 3 months later.
The UPS store can be given instructions, or you can call weekly and ask them to forward what you desire, and keep the rest there for your return. They can forward it to another UPS store in the state you are visiting, or something like 'general delivery Quartzsite AZ". However Quartzsite is such a popular place to collect mail, that the line is REALLY long! You might pick another nearby city.
Good luck,
Fred.
Do you have a neighbor or close friend that can take your mail? You can have it forwarded to your kids place, or other address for a time, then change it back to your house later. Your home will still get all the 'resident' mail at your home, and you probably can have a neighbor kid take that to the trash, or save it for your later sorting and trash it.
You can also rent a mailbox at someplace like the UPS store. Then forward all your bills and important stuff to that mailbox, and anything else can sit inside a really big mailbox at your home. You can buy a king size locking mailbox - about 16" square, and hold a lot of junk mail in it, empty it 3 months later.
The UPS store can be given instructions, or you can call weekly and ask them to forward what you desire, and keep the rest there for your return. They can forward it to another UPS store in the state you are visiting, or something like 'general delivery Quartzsite AZ". However Quartzsite is such a popular place to collect mail, that the line is REALLY long! You might pick another nearby city.
Good luck,
Fred.
