Thanks for all the replies.
I plan on volunteering physically with the group first... I already support them otherwise (money and goods).
AND folks, to the average government official and citizen, we who van dwell ARE HOMELESS! (their ignorance, not mine)
The shelter WILL hold mail, and I suspect that I could give them donation to forward it from time to time. I receive very little mail now... and most of that are things that I just need paper billing for or I'll forget them (electric which to pay automatically has them tap into the checking account, not a credit card, and I won't do that)... etc. I removed all charities that used to send me paper requests: they all come via email now. hahahah
I think I would enjoy a occasional hot shower even at a shelter! In hurricane zone, I used to manage Red Cross disaster shelters and find the people quite normal to say the least; I have no trouble mingling with regular people in a shelter! (I am regular people).
The Patriot Act changed many things... but made some secret things open. For privacy and security some of us could have our mailing address on our driver's license (as long as our real domicile was also listed with police). Now nearly all, if not all, addresses are categorized as residential or business or "not residential" and the computer kicks it back if it doesn't qualify. I'm about to find out this year....
(But some real addresses are coming up as not real... like online with the DMV today... said my home address wasn't real... foreseeing future now does it? Or is Echo recording and reporting my conversations with my dog? ) (Gotta get rid of that thing! I already put tape over the cameras on phone, computers.... haven't yet pulled plug on smart tv when I talk to myself wink wink)
I have always had a PO Box since some miscreants (govt and PIs) would go through mail at my home... from the box there.... The shelter offers a "residential" address for at least 8 months at a time I believe... and if I'm an active volunteer... hmmmm I've inquired and will let you know if I find out anything worthwhile.
The government already tracks all of us. Don't call me paranoid when they really are out to get us hahaha You think the huge computer system in (UTAH?) that can track 6000 bits of information PER SECOND on EACH of the nearly 7 BILLION people in the world is playing dominoes? The cellular phones, the GPS's, the black boxes that shut off your vehicle engines, the toll ticks and photos of your plate.... you cannot even move $5000 from one bank to another or to anywhere else these days without the government being informed (and you need 2 IDs in the bank to do so.) I won't get political but you have to realize that when Sen John McCain, upset over Trump's election stated publicly NOW THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS DISABLED (or some word like that I forget...dismantled... in disrepair ?) there's a problem for freedom. Satellites track our every movement.. no they might not know who "we" are right then, but they can know if they want to. (Think of this: Hitler knew where every Jewish person in the world was... even had them mapped out...one country only had 1 Jew yet Hitler knew where he was in that country! So with computers and technology.... don't kid yourselves.)
I doubt the RV places that are mail-forwarding warehouses will be ignored.
My only hope is that if being a Christian becomes a crime that they'll be enough evidence to convict me! (Rant over
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