Perhaps I don’t know enough about the Trucking Industry, perhaps its a simple answer.
How do truckers get mail?
That is, is there someway for snail mail to hit a ‘moving target’, and still have time sensitive materials matter?
They go home and pick it up. They have homes, most don’t even stay overnight and the long distance truckers come back once a week or fortnight.
If they stay out a long time their wife opens it, pays the bills, puts the other stuff aside. Sometimes something can be forwarded.
I figured that would be the answer. I was wondering if it would be possible, or even worth it, to get mail to where it can hit a moving target.
Telegrams have died.
If its THAT important, it can be wired, faxed, or 'netted.
Thanks
I used to use Fedex on occasion, but that was only for essential documents. It would be sent to the fuel desk of a truckstop that I chose, that way I could pick it up 2-3-4 days later.
I’m single and live alone, before online banking I had a part time secretary who took care of my mail. It was sometimes a hassle, but you learn to cope.
I think the only problem with “going home and picking it up” would be what type of mailbox you have. Now, if you have a mail-slot in your front door, it probably wouldn’t ever be an issue. However many areas, especially ones with long driveways, the Post Office requires a box be posted by the road; in my experience if you get a lot of mail the carrier will take all your mail back to the post office and put your mail on hold.
This has happened to me on a few different occasions when I leave town for say a week unexpectedly and come back and realize after a few days that I’m not getting any mail. The post office insists every time I call about this that they only put mail on hold if you request, they also explain that any mail that was sent to me would have been returned to sender as undeliverable. Oddly enough, every time we go through this the very next day I get mail from the entire prior week, suggesting it certainly hadn’t been returned to sender.
But anyway, I can just see it being a real pain in the ass in some situations if you can’t check your mail only once per week or worse once every two weeks.
With all of the online banking/billpay, many billers can also go paperless meaning little if any relevant mail will be delivered. Everything else can easily be put on auto pay from the bank to avoid any entanglements.
You can get a medium-sized PO box for about $40 near where I work.
If I was a long-haul trucker, I might invest in one and just pick up my mail there when I got back in town.
I obviously had a P.O. Box, a large one that cost me around $120 annually.
My brother-in-law has all his mail sent to US. We call him when he gets something that seems to be important, otherwise we just hold onto it until the next time he and my husband get together and get into mischief.
Coouldn’t they use general delivery? It is used by other travellers.
Brian
I had a couple of trucker customers at my The UPS Store. I received all their mail, held most of it and sent a few choice items overnight to them at the addresses they had left me before they left.