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I am planning to move out of state, from CA to FL.
Practically the way it works is while I am selling my house in CA, I will be renting an apartment in FL for few months, and only after I will buy a house and move into it. This mean moving and changing addresses twice within few months. I assume this is common, but the mail forwarding service is set up to support one move, not 2. So, how do I get my mail after several months???
Would any of these options work, or USPS may refuse to do it or get confused and loose my mail?
a) set up main forwarding to apartment in FL, then later set up another mail forwarding from the apartment to the new house. Some mail supposedly gets forwarded twice.
b) set up a PO box in FL, which I will have to drive to on a weekly basis, in case of any urgent demand letter (from bank, IRS, former employer, pension company) comes in.
c) set up a PO box, visit it weekly while living in the apartment, then set up mail forwarding from PO box to new house. This will be double forwarding from old house in CA to PO box to new house.
Another thing, how do I set up mail forwarding for 3-5 years? Recently I got demand letters from IRS about my 2 years ago filed tax return, that demanded payment or explanation within 2 weeks. Most official letters demand response within 30 days, but somehow it takes them 15 days to post it to me, so they only leave me half the time. Banks do it, mortgage companies, insurance companies...
"If you plan on moving to a new address for less than 6 months, then plan on moving to a different residence that's not the same as your old address, choose "Permanent," and fill out another Change of Address request at that time."
Last edited by reed303; 01-26-2020 at 05:41 PM..
Reason: more info
There are temporary forwarding orders and permanent forwarding orders.
Don't think there's a way to get mail forwarded for more than a year. Why would there be? Inform the sender of your new address and use it on every piece of correspondence you send to them (like your tax returns). If in the rare instance something you are expecting doesn't arrive, call/write the sender.
Last edited by Parnassia; 01-27-2020 at 01:52 PM..
"If you plan on moving to a new address for less than 6 months, then plan on moving to a different residence that's not the same as your old address, choose "Permanent," and fill out another Change of Address request at that time."
When we moved from Arizona, we put a hold on our mail, they will do 30 days.
When we got back to Florida we rented a PO box, and sent change of address to AZ, while staying in a campground in our trailer.
After we bought and moved into our condo, we notified credit card, bank, investments, etc of our new permanent address.
We emailed our friends and family of our new address including a photo of our condo.
I am planning to move out of state, from CA to FL.
Practically the way it works is while I am selling my house in CA, I will be renting an apartment in FL for few months, and only after I will buy a house and move into it. This mean moving and changing addresses twice within few months. I assume this is common, but the mail forwarding service is set up to support one move, not 2. So, how do I get my mail after several months???
Would any of these options work, or USPS may refuse to do it or get confused and loose my mail?
a) set up main forwarding to apartment in FL, then later set up another mail forwarding from the apartment to the new house. Some mail supposedly gets forwarded twice.
b) set up a PO box in FL, which I will have to drive to on a weekly basis, in case of any urgent demand letter (from bank, IRS, former employer, pension company) comes in.
c) set up a PO box, visit it weekly while living in the apartment, then set up mail forwarding from PO box to new house. This will be double forwarding from old house in CA to PO box to new house.
Another thing, how do I set up mail forwarding for 3-5 years? Recently I got demand letters from IRS about my 2 years ago filed tax return, that demanded payment or explanation within 2 weeks. Most official letters demand response within 30 days, but somehow it takes them 15 days to post it to me, so they only leave me half the time. Banks do it, mortgage companies, insurance companies...
Find a "virtual office" service that will provide mailbox services for any length of time. This third-party location will receive the mail no matter if you're staying in the apartment or in the new house.
In any case, this will 100% eliminate the possibility that any future tenants in that apartment will get your mail. Because your CA post office will never have the FL apt address. They'll have your virtual office box
Agree with the virtual office service. There are many companies that will do this for you. We used Traveling Mailbox when we Rv'd for 3 years. Gave us a "permanent address". They scanned the outside of the envelopes and emailed to you. You log into their system and tell them to shred, open and scan, or hold/mail. It was not overly expensive either.
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