[jblum8156]

I'll be away for 10 days in July and 2 weeks in August. How do I get the post office to hold my mail?

[BogeyBoy]

Go to usps.com, you can put your mail on hold right on line.

Here's the direct link:

https://holdmail.usps.com/holdmail/landingView.do

[villages07]

Our delivery person prefers you leave the note/form directly with them; I've seen the yellow 'hold mail' forms at some postal stations. If you're at your postal station one day while they are working, ask them what they prefer.

I did the usps.com route one time and it never seemed to get to my delivery person...mail was stacked up.

Either way should work.

[sandybill2]

We always turn in one of the "yellow hold mail forms" to our postal station if we are going to be away longer than a couple of days. They put it in your box to remind them but we have found they continue to put mail in our box -- stuffing it in---- If it gets to be too much--they will then put it in one of the larger boxes and leave a key in ours so we can pick it up. In our circumstances, it appears our box holds about a week's worth of mail.

[zcaveman]

Some of the neighbors around here usually ask an neighbor to pick up the mail and hold it for them. I just stick in in a box or a couple of plastic bags and give it to them when they get back.