[lee-sue]

We will be renting jan-mar, 2011. Property owners are willing to let us use their postal box. Do we have our mail forwarded in our name to the property address? or in our name in care of property owners name and to the property address? or some other method? Do we have to notify any local post office? (I know we have to notify our own post office.)

Basically, how do other people handle this situation?

Thanks,
Lee

[784caroline]

Having it forwarded to your name only at the address you are staying at would be sufficicent. BUT I would also stop by the mail boxes in your neighborhood and speak to the mail carrier and let him/her know who you are and what you are doing. The problem with putting the wners name on your mail is, most likely the people you are renting from are having their mail forwarded to someplace so you do not want to have any confusion. NO need to go to the post office just see your local mail carrier.

You will have to file a change of address or forwarding address when your 3 months are up.

[cher54461]

Originally Posted by lee-sue

We will be renting jan-mar, 2011. Property owners are willing to let us use their postal box. Do we have our mail forwarded in our name to the property address? or in our name in care of property owners name and to the property address? or some other method? Do we have to notify any local post office? (I know we have to notify our own post office.)

Basically, how do other people handle this situation?

Thanks,
Lee

I worked for the post office. What we did instead of temporary forwarding, they will forward your mail under cover as often as you want for a fee. This way we did not do temporary change of address. It will stop when you want it. Then they will deliver to your permant address. Or you can have someone a friend or family member forward your mail once a week or as often as you like. If it fits in flate rate prority env, whatever fits you can prepay for person forwarding. We just had our name on envelope you do not need owners name, the post office will put in box.

[redwitch]

If the homeowners are having their mail forwarded, ALL mail sent to that address will be forwarded, so be sure they are not forwarding mail. Otherwise, just doing a temporary forward to your new address in your name is all you need. Most of the TV postal contractors are used to seeing a lot of different names for an address (not that they look at the names, really -- just the street and number).

Enjoy your visit -- hard not to be happy here.

[k2at]

What I did was to get the prepaid 81/2 by 11 manila envelopes and pre addressed them. Then I got the proper postage put on and gave them to the mail staff in our town. Every two weeks they would stuff full the manilla envelope with as much mail as possible and send it to me in Florida at the PO Box I addressed it to. They only sent the first class mail in the manila envelope. The newspapers and junk mail they just discarded. The pre addressed mailer cost about $4.50 each and u can stuff in as much mail as it will hold. This system worked very well for me.