[redwitch]

Go to the post office on Teague. I've found the folks there to be very knowledgeable and helpful. Beats the heck of trying to get an intelligent answer on the phone.

[njbchbum]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

I tried calling the number you show above and it has been busy all day long. I did the forwarding via the card rather than the internet so no confirmation number available. I don't have to worry that they would start delivering immediately as in Fenney we have to pick up our mail at the Sales Office as the postal facilities are not yet open. I just thought there would be a way to do this without the confirmation number or a way to get the confirmation number.

Calling the P.O. without the confirm number is the way to go...if the main number is busy - call the sub-station. You can trust that they will notify the Main P.O.

After years of frustration with USPS, this Summer I just bit the bullet & paid nearly $20 a week for the Premium Forwarding. Couple of weeks ago my weekly package included all of some other family's mail & none of ours. After several days a postal rep called me with apologies and advice what to do with the other guy's mail, but no ideas on where mine went. Told her OK, can you stop my Premium Forwarding now, I will be back in Florida in less than a month? Sure she said, I can do that. Two weeks later I got a new package. What else can I say? I do as much as possible by electronic mail, but you can't do 100%. Hopefully I will get the $20 back for the shipment of the other guy's mail.

[Carla B]

Once, when we lived aboard our sailboat, I called our mail forwarding service and asked that they send our collected mail via Priority Mail to Georgetown, Great Exuma, Bahamas. It didn't come. One year later, the package showed up back at our service. It had been sent to somewhere in Germany.

[johnboy]

Leave a note with your carrier at your mail station to stop forwarding your mail.

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

What I'm trying to accomplish is not having my TV mail forwarded to Ohio and then have Ohio forward it back down here. By the time I get my bills I'll be late in paying them.

You can go online or call each company get balance and pay. I don't forward any mail. Our up north mailbox is metal, mail drops in to a storage area, that stays dry and unless you drive a big truck over it mail is safe. I do use online checking, and 60% of our mail is paperless. Some things I still want in hand

[charmed59]

Mail that is forwarded takes about 10 days depending on where the weekends fall, to get to the new site. Assuming you are forwarding from location A to location B only for the month of October. A letter reaches location A on Oct 1st, at that point the post office sees the forwarding request before sending it out for delivery, and sends it on to location B. Bills sent out on Oct 2nd reach location A Oct 4th and now are sent back out for delivery reaching location B the 9th or 10th.

Similarly, you get the lag at the end of the month, so mail sent the 27th of October won't be back to location A until around the 6th or 7th of Nov.

Then you have the mail that slips through the cracks. When we bought our second home here in TV mail was getting returned to sender because the guy in the villages sorting mail didn't recognize the last name.

Friends who need important mail to get there timely had someone check their mail, and then FedEx them an overnight envelope with important mail every few days. That way they can track it and it gets to their doorstep. That said, online, if available, definitely works the best.

[justjim]

First, the pony express is not what it use to be. We have been fighting USPS for several years. Trust me---there are no good anwers to the forwarding mail problem. Some years all goes well, others, not so much. No need to bore you with lost mail including 1099's at tax time , etc. We do find it best to use the computer to iniate and stop our mail forwarding. You can do that by simply going to their website and follow instructions. Note: only cost 1.00 but when things go as they should, you would gladly pay more. Finally, it's the USPS electronic system and almost never the fault of your mail carrier.

[Radioman41]

Certain items won't be forwarded such as credit cards. If I am expecting a new credit card to replace an expiring card, I call the bank or credit card company and give them my temporary summer address. Remember to call and change it back upon return.