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Originally Posted by DrHitch
This is a specific question if anyone knows what happens to all the junk/marketing mail if you select mail forwarding service?
I fully understand that you can pay $24+ per month to have everything forwarded. I also use their "informed delivery" scan to email service.
The usual forwarding service (up to a year) will forward all 1st class and priority mail....
BUT ..what happens to the rest? Returned to sender? Delivered to other address? Curious.
Saw previous thread here about "snowbird mail"
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I discussed the premium service that you mention with my local post office. With that service, they take every piece of your mail (junk and all) and put it in a mailer and mail it to you every week or two weeks, I forget which.
For just regular mail forwarding, the junk mail stays behind.
What we do is a change of address for the first class mail we normally get, plus forwarding for the rest of our first class mail (like Christmas cards). I keep a list of the change of address notifications with the date I did it plus the method (online, phone call, if there's a long lead time (magazine subscriptions). Some take more than one call (like Citizens First Bank). We put a physical note in each of our mailboxes telling the carrier not to put any mail in the box. (They have a better handle on that here than up north.) That way those pieces eventually get forwarded.
We do NOT do a change of address for Social Security and Medicare. We tried that our first year here and kept getting monthly letters that we needed to change our Social Security office and Medicare plan. We'd call each of them, tell them we were still residents up north and just in Florida for the winter, and they'd say, Okay, we understand. Then we'd get the same letter the next month and repeat the process. So we let anything from those agencies just get forwarded to us.
This is the method that works best for us. But you have plenty of options to see what works best for you.