Mailbox store is the correct solution
This is what we did for the two years that we rented before we bought. I didn't want to use the owner's mailbox because my thought was that once we were gone, what if important things showed up and were sitting in their box? (They didn't live in the house, so didn't always get their mail.) Examples would be anything from Social Security or Medicare. If you do a change of address with them, it will turn into its own nightmare.
Anyway, we went to the UPS Store at Pinellas (that was the closest to our rental) and got a mailbox there. You are given a physical address with a number behind it. I can't remember exactly how it goes. You have your own mailbox that you can access 24/7 because you get a key to the store that only allows access to the mailboxes. If something is delivered that doesn't fit in the box, you get a text message or email about it (I think I'm remembering correctly), and then you just need to go in during store hours to retrieve it. So that UPS box covers anything that comes any way it's sent: UPS, FedEx, USPS. The only downside is that you have to schlep over to the store to pick up everything, although you won't go there on a wild goose chase because you'll have notification that it's there.
That's one of the downsides to not owning your own place, but it's manageable.
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