Mail when on road ??

Hi Brian: We are continually on the move when on the road. So we organise a mail forwarding business to forward our mail to the next appropriate Post Office. We firstly arrange to have our mail forwarded from our local PO to the mail forwarding business. We just notify - via email - the business of the postal address of the PO we will next be passing by. Addresses of all Australia Post offices is available on the Web. Hope this info is what you were looking for. Cheers. Lynton.

Brian
We have all our mail redirected to our daughter, who also has Power of Attorney.
She opens any that she considers necessary and either attends to it or scans it and forwards it via Email for my/our attention. Most of our regular mail (bills) are now dealt with electronically with no paper involved.

This system has worked now for the past 5 years and has included such things as being called up for Jury Duty being dealt with using her PoA.

Hope this helps and enjoy your travels
Athol

We have been using a mail direction company (Landbase) to manage our mail. works well for us. We use their address as our postal address and our sons address in WA as residential address. Residential address is in WA for licence and Centrelink. Just need to ring or email where you want mail to be sent a week before you get there. Australia Post will hold mail for 4 weeks before returning to sender so have plenty of margin for extended stays on the way.
Has worked for us for several years but had to explain the NSW, Landbase address, was only a mail diversion company and there are no such facilities in WA.


Neil

There are many mail forwarding services, some who will open and scan so you decide which mail you want to receive, pay for the postage of, and fill up your caravan with.

I have a daughter who tends this for me, and I am able to continue all aspects of running a business without physically receiving mail when travelling for months at a time. She sends me the list of bills each month, and scans any mail she thinks I need to look at. If a non email reply is needed I draft it and she prints it and signs on my behalf. If we are out of internet range for some time and a bill needs attention within that time, she will contact the company and explain why we will be paying late and they are happy with this when told. When we return there are boxes and boxes of mail we don't want, with only the bills and just a few documents to file away.

The only times I needed to physically receive mail was if a signature was required on a document such as a mortgage. This can usually be forwarded to a branch of that financial institution to fit our travel plans. If suitable it can be emailed and printed off at a public access technology place, often available in public libraries, signed and posted back.

I have registered for electronic mail only where ever possible, eg with shares. Bank statements are all available on line.

When a friend was living overseas for what turned out to be some years, I picked up her mail (we have post office boxes) and tended to it, emailing her about anything that may have been important. She would then let me know if she needed me to post it - very little needed posting.

Motherhen

We have most of our bills as paperless. We either get them by email or notified by our credit union. We then pay by Bpay. For mail bills son either just sms the the Bay numbers or takes a photo of the bill and sms. Other mail is mostly non urgent so can wait till we get home.

Australia Post offer a digital mail service you can select what bills letters you want to use it suggest you go and ask them about it.

Mail?
Two letters every three months. Gas and Electricity, and as I pay a bit each fortnight, i'm in credit, so I don't even really need them.