Reserve your new PO Box and tell everyone about it.Unsure of what's big and what’s small for a box? Here’s the breakdown from USPS. For those who get loads of mail and packages, you’ll want a box that is sure to fit everything and not irritate the lovely post office crew each time another large package arrives. Determine the right box size you’ll need.You can find a location near you using Google or by checking with the post office. Choose one that you know you’ll easily be able to access as you’ll have to visit the box about once a week. Yes, it’s that simple and no, you don’t have to be from that city or state to sign up for one.
If you’re moving around weekly, setting up a PO Box will be more costly and time-consuming than it’s worth.įor those staying at one place for at least a month, you can set up a PO Box with these easy-to-follow steps: This is realistic and easy to do if you’ll be staying in one city (or close to it) for at least a month. If you don’t have resources like extra kind family or friends to rely on doing something like this, then we suggest setting up a PO Box for each city that you’re in. Before we left, we tried to minimize our mail as much as possible, moving to paperless on a majority of our subscriptions (see paperless tips below).
We’re extra lucky to have family members who don’t mind taking the time and collecting our mail for us, but we also don’t have tons of mail being sent and definitely don’t have any magazine subscriptions coming to them. Not everyone will appreciate your magazine subscriptions as much as you do. If you choose to go this route, make sure you’re 100% comfortable with the receiving party and have a general idea of what kind of mail they’ll be expected to receive. In order to make something like this work, we chose to have our mail sent to the people we trust most, the people we don’t mind opening up and potentially seeing a “late” bill, medical information or a personal piece of mail. Anything urgent, or at least looks urgent, they’re kind enough to text us right away sending a photo of the letter/package. Trash it, take a photo of it, or keep it are usually the general requests. That means once a month we schedule a special FaceTime session with them and go over all of our mail. Since we updated our mailing address to my parents and sister-in-law’s houses, we tend to rely on them for any big mail updates. Forward Your Mail to People You’re Comfortable With and Trust Check with your local post office to see if the city you’re changing your mailing address to will affect your voting privileges. Note: If you still want to vote in your specific county and need to change your mailing address to a new city and/or state, keep in mind that changing your mailing address may have an effect on your voting.
Setting up a po box mail forward address for packages update#
Check with your local post office to learn exactly what you need to do to update your address and use this guide from the post office as a resource. This is especially true if you’re planning on full-timing in an RV for at least six months to a year. Avoid the excessively long lines at the post office and file online for a temporary address change and/or to have your mail held.Īs long as you have a minimal amount of mail coming in and really nice family/friends who are willing to collect and share the mail with you, it’s best to update your mailing address to a family member/friend’s house. So, at the very least, you can set up your mail to be held at the post office or do a temporary address change for those shorter one-to-three-month getaways. You definitely don’t want to let mail go to your now-rented-out house or get sent back. We technically didn’t have a house anymore after getting rid of the home, vehicles, and belongings, so we reached out to our sister-in-law and my parents to ask if we could update our mailing address to their houses. Update Your Mailing Address Before Full-Time RVingĪ month before we departed, we went to the post office and updated our mailing address. With the busiest gift-giving season upon us, here are a few different steps to receiving mail when you don’t have a permanent address. This tends to be fairly common for RVers, but there are ways around the mail headache. Most of the time, we would send them an “updated” and “temporary” address, and occasionally we wouldn’t have an address to give at all. Jessie and I send postcards to 30 different friends and family members from each National Park we visit, so naturally, we are asked a ton if we can receive mail back from those family and friends.
Business goes on as usual whether you’re living in your Winnebago or a house, and mail is part of that routine. Whether you part-time RV or you’re a brand-new full-time RVer, you need to get your mail.