heres the situation. i live with my brother in an apartment complex. i will be leaving with him on friday and stay gone for a week and a half at my parents home.
In that time 2 important pieces of mail will come in. A package for me and my brothers med school application. my brother says his med school app. must be returned within a few days of its reception and my package will probably get sent back to sender if i’m not here to pick it up. However since neither of us will be here how do we get our mail?
i’m afraid that if i choose to fill out the paperwork to have my mail here forwarded to my parents home that it will take too long for the paperwork too get processed for the mail to get rerouted.
i guess i could ask someone at the apartment to check my mail for me. but whom would i ask? i have no friends and i don’t really trust some stranger to give a shit enough to check my mail for me everyday.
is there a service where i could pay someone to check my mail for me?
could the post office notify me by telephone of what mail i’m getting in on each day?
keep in mind im brainstorming, i intend to call the post office tomorrow. right now i’m just looking for ideas.
I’ve had mail rerouted from Milwaukee to Sarasota while I was on vacation. I didn’t have any problems. And I went and filled out the paper work only 2 days before I left.
How about asking the Complex’s office and your mail carrier? If it’s not against their policies then maybe your mail can be delivered to the office and you could ask them to overnight the application for you. Just pay them for the cost of shipping it. As for the package, I know that my complex will hold package until I have a chance to pick it up. I had to sign a form allowing them to do it though.
Your brother might also want to call the school and either ask for an extension explaining the details or ask them to directly mail it to your parents’ house. They might not be able to do it, but it’s worth a shot.
Well I dont know if this will work there, but you could open a mailbag or mailbox at your post office.
How it works is that you pay a small fee to keep all your mail at the post office itself instead of delivering it at your home.You could then have an arrangement with a courier company to check for your mail at the post office everyday and forward the mail to your parents house.
How far away is your parents’ house from where you live? Forwarding the mail could take a few extra days, as it has to arrive at your current post office, be checked against the forwarding order, and then sent to the new post office for delivery.
Is the concern that you want your mail definitely at your parents’ house, or just that you want it secured until you get back (asked for your brother’s med. school papers)?
If it can wait, the post office will be glad to hold you mail for you up to 30 days. You have the option of telling them a resume date or letting them know after the fact that you want resumed mail.
holding mail is just as bad because my brother says he needs to send his med school application a few days after it arrives. Holding my package would work though.
my parents home is about 140 miles from where i go to college and am at right now.
Do you have a friend who could drop by and pick up mail? Even stay there until the stuff arrives and split once he/she’s sent it off to your folks’ house overnighted?
You could have the mail rerouted for the duration of your absence, or maybe arrange with the post office to hold the mail for you until you return. There may be a fee associated with this, but the importance of the packages should be a motivating factor.
You could attach a note to your door, but his would be a giveaway that you’re not home and won’t be for some time. Do you really want persons of questionable morals to know your place is unguarded? Nope.
Ask the PO to keep the mail at the Post Office to be picked up when you get back. I always do this when going on vacation, for any length of time, and it works great.
You can get a form at the PO for this and turn it in there. You set the effective date and ending date.
The letter is important – so you CAN do this: set up mail forwarding with the post office – you can do it online for temporary moves. The neat thing is if you give them only your brother’s name, they’ll forward only his mail. Remember it’s a temporary move. And it’s a free service.
For your stuff: from the same site get and print the hold mail form, and give it to your postal carrier. It’s free, and you don’t have to go to the post office – your postal carrier will accept it and it works well anytime we go on vacation.