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Originally Posted by Pugchief
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.
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We do the exact same thing, except we simply put our mail on hold for the whole winter, and early spring, and deal with the remaining 2% when we return. Only once we got a small penalty for late payment of a bill, our quarterly property tax bill up north. Our small hill towns archaic website doesn’t allow setting up autopay, so now I call the tax accessors office from the Villages and get the bill information and send them a check from the Villages during the winter. The post office is only supposed to hold the mail for thirty days, but an annual box of chocolates for the women working in our small towns post office solves that problem.