Tuesday, July 29, 2008

What do we do about mail?

When I left Alexandria for good in February, I filled out a change of address form at the post office and we signed up for a mail forwarding service. Basically all of our mail is sent to Green Cove Springs, FL to a company called Mail Forwarding Services at St. Brendan’s Isle. They collect our mail, toss the junk, and keep it until we are somewhere where we know we will be. I then go online and fill out a mail shipment request; they package everything up, and then send it overnight via FedEx or UPS. For example, we are going to be in Port Jefferson, NY this weekend. We are going to have our mail shipped to Linda Sanders’s house (Bill’s friend from high school) and she’ll bring it when we go for dinner with her and her family (Thank you Linda and Mike!) And last week we had a shipment sent to us in Nantucket since the marina agreed to accept the package for us. It has worked well so far and we are able to keep in touch and get our magazines, etc. We do all of our bills online.