Forward mail scam
 

I was attempting to forward my mail. I followed a link on search and found a form. They wanted to charge $59.95 for forwarding. I know that the USPS only charges about $1.00. Did a search and found out there are a bunch of scams out there dealing with this.
If you are going to do online forwarding for you mail, make sure you to to the official USPS site. Then to to Track & Manage to find the forwarding form.
Hope this helps someone else from getting scammed.

I recommend that you go to USPS.COM and set up an account with a user name and password. Then, you can log in any time to do just about anything related to the Post Office and your mail. The website you found was probably not a scam, but it was a ripoff.

When we moved here in Feb went to our local post office filled out a form and our mail (except for junk) was forwarded at no cost to us.

There is no charge to have your United States Postal Service mail forwarded BY the United States Postal Service.

Not true. What the OP said is correct. They charge you a dollar if you use the online process on the USPS website. They charge it to your credit card as a way to identify you.

I've never used the postal service website. I just go to the post office. There's no charge.

Yep. No fees required. Private companies have been providing services for years for different things. You need to go to the source itself or else youll be paying all kinds of fees.

For those of us who do not want to travel to a PO and then stand in line for a half hour, doing it online and being charged a dollar in order to identify the person making the request, then getting an email to let you know it has been received and set is a deal. Do this every year, easy-peasy.

USPS forwarding
 

While “normal” forwarding, if you sign up at the Post Office, is free, the USPS does now have a service where they will bundle up your to-be-forwarded mail once a week and send it along as Priority Mail. I don’t recall the exact price but when I looked into it I thought it was pretty pricey. Problem is that regular forwarded mail can take a long time to get to its destination and if you have monthly bills being forwarded it can be tight to make due dates. I went ahead and set up auto-pay on everything except credit cards and check those every week online.

That is correct, for online forwarding it’s $1.05 now as proof of who are. In person, filling out the card by hand is free.

Does this imply you were trying to go to something OTHER than the official USPS web site??????

If you google mail forwarding, you will find several commercial websites that will fill out the forms for you for a fee. Some of them try to look like they are an actual Government website. Buyer beware. The official Post Office website is USPS.COM.

Same with the DMV or getting birth certificates or other business matters like patents . many sites to take your $$$$$

When we moved here found lots of people contacting us disguising themselves as Florida govt offering to help us for a slight fee. Or in some cases not so slight.

When is a rip-off not a scan?