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Originally Posted by dwsommer330
While “normal” forwarding, if you sign up at the Post Office, is free, the USPS does now have a service where they will bundle up your to-be-forwarded mail once a week and send it along as Priority Mail. I don’t recall the exact price but when I looked into it I thought it was pretty pricey. Problem is that regular forwarded mail can take a long time to get to its destination and if you have monthly bills being forwarded it can be tight to make due dates. I went ahead and set up auto-pay on everything except credit cards and check those every week online.
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The service referred to here is United States Postal Service “Premium Forwarding Service.” Our mail carrier in Maryland told us about it. It is a little pricey, but totally worth it - we used it this past winter. As others described, sign up online. There is a one time set up fee of $21.10 which lasts year after year I believe, then a weekly charge of $19.35 for the time you want it forwarded. Because our MD local postal branch is abysmal and you have no idea if you’re going to see your mail ever again or not with regular forwarding (a problem for many in our area), the process of collecting and bundling all of the mail weekly and sending in one envelope was much more reliable. We found it worth the money. And as mentioned by others, the daily email showing a scan of what you’re receiving is nice info to have (especially during tax time when you’re looking for important docs.) Highly recommend.