Getting mail is probably our biggest pain on the road, but fortunately we really do not need most of our mail as the majority of everything we do is online. Mail though is still important and is really a pain, waste of time, and money. The reason mail is such a pain is: 

    1. We currently have to request our mail to be sent to an address we provide, but we never know if we have mail or not when requesting it.

    2. Our mailing service does not tell us if they sent any mail or not after the request.

    3. We primarily use general delivery and only one post office per town accepts it, but the USPS only provides the general delivery zip code, but does not show the street address of the post office. Since the USPS does not show the street address of the central post office for a city, we have to drive to the first post office we find, and get the address of the General delivery Post Office. This can kill a day!

    4. Since we do not know what day our mail went out, or if any mail went out to us, often there is no mail waiting for us at the post office. Sometimes the mailing service takes a few days to send out a priority package, so we never know when it will arrive. This has caused us to have to make multiple trips to the post office looking for our mail. Since we camp in RV parks we can find our selves 30 to 60 miles from a general delivery the post office.

Net result: Lots of frustration. Many people also use mailing services to establish residency in a state for tax or other reasons, and changing mailing services can be difficult. We have not found a service that entirely meets our needs, but here is what we know of so far:

This spread sheet contains a key at the bottom for the mailing company abbreviations in the top row.