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Old 09-22-2024, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Pugchief View Post
The USPS is unreliable. That is not changing any time soon, probably ever.

The solution is to do everything you possibly can online. Get most of your bills by email. Set up direct deposit and direct debit and/or use billpay. This reduces your snail mail to 98% advertisements and junk.

For the remaining 2%, we forward UpNorth mail to TV when we are in FL and forward TV mail to UpNorth in the summer. It mostly works. The less important mail you get, the less of an issue it becomes.
When you say you forward the remaining 2%, is that standard USPS mail forward request? From what I read on the post office site, they don’t forward commercial advertisements, etc. Does that get you the remaining 2%, or are you changing address back and forth with each provider?

We do almost everything online, but you never know when something important will get mailed to you. I just don’t want to wait 3 months to find out! Thanks again.