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Originally Posted by Catalina36
I believe you can only get mail forwarding for a max of 30 days. You have to actually do a "change of address". I usually start a week before I leave either house. It sometimes takes a couple of days for the mail change of address to start thats why I start a week in advance. This time, I started to use the postal service which sends you a email photo shot of your mail in the morning of your delivery. Its actually kind of cool, especially in The Villages. It could save you a trip to the postal station only to find you have no mail.
You can do everthing on line. When your leaving The Villages, The week before go to the postal station and talk with the mail person and fill out the paperwork directly with them.
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That has been our experience also. When setting up "change of address", you will be prompted to select "temporary" or "permanent". Choose temporary and give starting and ending dates. When you get the confirmation email, be sure to keep it, or at least keep the confirmation number. You will need that if you ever want to adjust the end date or check on it. Like others, we start the service several days early, and stop the forwarding about 2 weeks before we leave TV just to be sure nothing comes to TV after we leave. We also use informed delivery, and whether forwarding mail or not, that has proven to be a valuable service! The only problem we have experienced was once when our individual mail carrier in KY inadvertently sent mail to TV after the cutoff date. We knew it because of informed delivery (plus we got no mail), and we were able to both track it down AND contact the senders for important mail. For the most part, USPS does a great job with this and setting it up is simple.
Good luck, welcome to TV, and get ready for a place like no other - you will love it here!!!