when we were 'snow bunnies' (hopping back and forth every few weeks) we'd just put the mail on hold.
when we became 'snow birds' (staying in FL for long periods of time), we'd have the mail forwarded to us in FL.
the tricky part was timing the cut off...we always had some mail that seemed to get forwarded to FL after
we had left. Fortunately a neighbor would pick it up and mail it up to us
then we smartened up and bypassed the USPS as much as possible by going 'green' with everything we could, as many bills as possible now go directly to a credit card or a draw from our checking...which significantly lessened the risk of incurring a late charge fee when we were traveling (which we did a lot before covid-19). It's pretty easy to identify which bills you can't direct to a credit card (like taxes) and will still be coming via regular 'snail mail'...those are easy to figure out when they are due....some of those we pay early before we travel because we could, others we knew that we'd have plenty of time to pay when we returned, or they wouldn't be sent out for awhile, so we just put a 'hold on the mail'. With online banking it's easy to pay a credit card bill from where ever.
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