[von949]

Originally Posted by waltman

For what it's worth I have a virtual mailbox address with a company in California. They receive the physical mail, scan it and notify me by email. Then I can download the scanned mail at my convenience. Works like a charm.

www.virtualpostmail.com

That's a good idea. I have to keep that in mind.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

The USPS has a weekly service. The USPS bundles all your mail & puts in in a priority mail carton & sends it to wherever you want it sent. This is NOT "temporary mail forwarding."

The name of the weekly service from the US Post Office is "Premium Forwarding". See http://faq.usps.com/eCustomer/iq/usp...eType:embedded

[timothyaw]

Thanks for the replies, just to clarify... I will setup all my bills to come to my primary home address. I'm not trying to pull some kinda of con. It's just those one off pieces of mail that I don't want to stack up in the mailbox.

The virtual mail and premium forwarding sound like possible options.

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by timothyaw

... I'm not trying to pull some kinda of con. It's just those one off pieces of mail that I don't want to stack up in the mailbox.

The virtual mail and premium forwarding sound like possible options.

I believe you -- but in case someone else reads this thread & thinks they can claim Nevada residency for tax purposes while living in CA -- be forewarned. The Franchise Tax Board has amazing & extraordinary capabilities to ferret out people they think might be tax cheats.

And, tax court is unlike criminal court in that, in essence, you are guilty unless you can prove otherwise.

Bottom line: just don't do it.

[LVguy]

question what would the mailman do if you never check your mailbox and it gets filled up? friend went to Europe won't be back for awhile, saw his box the other day it was really full, but couldn't get it for him mailman won't let me.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by LVguy

question what would the mailman do if you never check your mailbox and it gets filled up? friend went to Europe won't be back for awhile, saw his box the other day it was really full, but couldn't get it for him mailman won't let me.

The letter carrier takes the mail in the box, leaves a notice for the recipient there is mail at the post office for them, and it's held for some period of time.

[TexasRedneck]

Your friend can go online and request the mail be held for them until a given date, and then either pick it up or have it delivered to them.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

I believe you -- but in case someone else reads this thread & thinks they can claim Nevada residency for tax purposes while living in CA -- be forewarned. The Franchise Tax Board has amazing & extraordinary capabilities to ferret out people they think might be tax cheats.

And, tax court is unlike criminal court in that, in essence, you are guilty unless you can prove otherwise.

Bottom line: just don't do it.

We should get the post office to hire some of them in the forwarding department.

[hannaranch]

I tried that once and it was a mess. The Post Office returned mail and I had banks calling that checks were returned and asking if this was a permanent change of address. I never did it again!

[MaryleeII]

Originally Posted by robr2

The letter carrier takes the mail in the box, leaves a notice for the recipient there is mail at the post office for them, and it's held for some period of time.

Then its returned to sender.