One of the challenges of life on the road is getting our mail. We can deal with most things online or by phone, but still, you need a mailing address and we'd rather not have our mail forwarded from place to place chasing us around the country.
Most campgrounds will accept UPS or FedEx packages, but they do not want campers to have their regular mail sent to the campground office. Plus, even if we stay in one place for 3-4 months, that still gets to be a pain to change our address that often.
What's a full time RVer supposed to do? Fortunately, others have thought of this already. We have signed up with America's Mailbox,
a mail forwarding service located in SD. For a fee, we get a post
office box there and they will send our mail to us every week or two,
depending on what we request. We've paid a bit more for to have them
discard the junk mail so we don't have to pay to have the garbage
forwarded. We've also deposited money to pay for the postage to have our
mail forwarded. So, it's a bit more expensive than just having a
mailbox on your front door.
Just in time for all the Christmas cards you'll be sending us!
I had wondered how you were getting your mail. So when America's Mailbox forwards your mail, how do you get it? Can they mail it to the campground (even though they don't want regular mail forwarded)? UPS it?
ReplyDeleteWe used to have neighbors who were snowbirds and would live 6 months in their RV in AZ, but I had no idea there was such a developed RV community/culture.
Robin