I understand that mail forwarding services, like Escapees, will send your mail General Delivery to a post office. But if you're going to be staying in a campground for a month or more at a time, it seems more convenient to mail it to the campground. Will a campground accept mail for you? Or will places like UPS Store or Mail Boxes Etc accept a package for you if you're not using their forwarding service? 

Campgrounds vary on accepting mail, some also charge for it. Campgrounds that commonly have monhtly or seasonal campers accept mail. Most campgrounds will accept packages from UPS or FedEx even for daily rates and UPS and FedEX will deliver right to your campsite. I have often seen them deliver Dish or DirectTV stuff that was overnighted to get people up and running.

I think you are worrying about something that isn't a real problem.

UPS Store/Mail Box Etc/others accept packages for non-box holders and will sometimes charge a handling fee. Call the specific store and ask the details for how to address, charges, etc.

Remember, unlike what you may have done in your sticks-n-bricks, you really don't need forwarding but once a month. I often go for several month's w/o. But, I know all my billing cycles and make all payments and the like on-line and on-time. When I request a forward I use that pile of mail only to confirm what I have already done. Friends know to contact me using E-mail or V-mail but not Snail-Mail.

When you hit the road you may need to switch your mail handling mind-set from reactive (doing something AFETR you get mail) to pro-active (processing stuff BEFORE you get mail). That switch can be tough but it is very liberating. I've talked to plenty of folks who not only are bungee corded to their sticks-n-bricks but also have yet another bungee cord to their mailbox.

Like bjoyce says, it's really not a problem.

-- Edited by RVDude at 12:30, 2007-02-18

This is the least of  our worries here also.  No problems using the ups store.  Just call and ck how much mail is there and they ck and see whats there and ship it out to whatever campground we are at.  Most of our banking is done on line now. We get mail once a wk.
southwestjudy & Bob & 2blackdogs

Hi,
We only had one campground we stayed at last year that wouldn't accept mail. Generally they are very accomodating. Some have a charge if you're going to stay a long time.

Fred

A lot of membership type campgrounds don't accept mail but will accept "packages". Since mail is forwarded as a "package" it may be accepted. When in doubt we call ahead and check.

We use FMCA mail services and receive mail once a week, sent priority general delivery. It usually arrives by Tuesday. The small town post offices are very accommodating and generally pleasant. Can't say the same for the large towns.

FedEx and UPS are usually not a problem. I should note that we don't receive a ton of mail. We have arranged for almost all statements to arrive online and almost all banking is handled that way, too.

Mike

We've been using Netflix for the last couple of years (started while still in our sticks&bricks). Is it practical to continue this service as a full-timer? We intend to setup a mail forwarding service and plan on getting our mail about twice a month. I wonder if that is often enough to justify the Netflix monthly fees (2 movies - ~$15 a month).

Thoughts? Comments? Anybody full-timing and still using Netflix?

Netflix has the capability of downloading movies to your computer. You might check on that feature if it would work for you.

Downloading movies will blow your download limits on satelite internet, cell phone internet and many campground wi-fi managers will seek you out and yell at you or go into their routers and ban that device since you will be hogging the wi-fi.

Howard just posted that people are hijacking topics and this is an example.  We jumped from mail forwarding to Netflix.

Since we "moved" to South Dakota as our domicile, we set up our mail forwarding through a service in our "hometown." We have been very pleased with the service. We usually get our mail sent to us, wherever we are, about twice a month. Like others have stated here, the best thing to do is set up all bill paying online and then you need not worry about getting something in time to take action. It takes a little bit of time to set up, but then you're worry-free. And isn't that one of the reasons we've chosen this lifestyle? :) Good luck. If you'd like info on the mail forwarding service we use, just send me a private message and I'll get it to you.