My Question (Mail - USPS type)
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I use a postal express in my hometown for receiving mail/UPS/Fedex and for forwarding it. They charge me $80 a year for a small box and then whatever the postage is to forward mail whenever I want it.<br>I use this even though I have a sticks and bricks home and am on the road part-time...<br>Bri <br>
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<br><br>I was fortunate enough to have a friend willing to let me use his address, he would set thing aside unless he felt it was important enough for me to be notified.. with the ease of handling most things online, it wasnt that big of a deal.<br><br>Now I have some property and got a PO box that I check once a month or so, and if I do hit the road for a bit, will just do temporary forwarding.. while receiving things on the road, I would use general delivery to various post offices and that worked fine overall<br><br>polecat77 said:
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There is a page on the site about mail. Go down the menu on the right to the page titles "Internet, Mail..."<br><br>My mail forwarder is older and retired and she operates out of her home and I think it is a perfect business for her. She charges $100 a year and has more than two hundred customers. So she makes $20,000 a year but has virtually no expenses. She rents big bins from the Post Office all the mail goes to, but I think that is only a few hundred dollars a year. She also spends money on gas going to and from the Post office but I doubt that adds up to much. My guess is she makes a profit of over $15,000 year. <br>But I don't think you could live in a van and do it. She has set aside a room in her house as an office and she needs the whole area. One big wall has bins devoted to each customer where she sorts and puts their mail waiting for it to be sent. She gets boxes for her customers from UPS, Fed Ex and others and she stores them waiting for instructions on forwarding them. She has a computer and commercial printers, scanner, and fax machine. She needs a large room to run the business and I don't think there is any way to do it in a van. You could do it in an RV by stripping some stuff out and making a large office. But she is tied down, and can't leave town. She has a hard time going on vacation because she has to keep the mail going out. <br><br>Hope this helps. Bob <br><br>
<P>If I decide to do the mail forwarding thing it would be at a later time. Ater I found some land down south or southwest. I was just wondering if people would use the service? I read the page on here about it. Thats what gave me the idea to start it. - Polecat</P>
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From what I've read and researched. South Dakota and Texas have some of the best mail service firms that handle things pretty well for you. <div><br></div><div>I've read that SD is very friendly to full timers and more lenient when it comes to jury duty over Texas. However when I met Bob he relayed to me that Nevada is a good state for full timers to handle their mail/auto registration with. I'm still researching them as my potential home state for this. </div><div><br></div><div>For anyone who may not be aware. The main thing that ties these states together is the lack of state income tax.</div>
