Mail Delivery

My husband and I are planning to go OTR as a team, and truly embrace the lifestyle ... giving up our apartment. Curious what others do about mail delivery without a home base. PO Box most likely, but not sure where? Thoughts?

I work for Prime and they have PO boxes right in thw terminals you can rent. people have told me they will hold your mail well over 6 weeks. The local PO might have a limit.. but you can solve this by renting a bigger box.Aybe near family where u know you will be heading from time to time

I rented a large Post Office Box in New Kingstown, PA when I drove OTR from 1981 - 1987.

A buddy of mine went OTR back in September 2015, and he has his mail sent to his Son's house.

As Rainy D suggested, though, you may want to consider renting a larger P.O. Box, maybe near Family. I know when I was OTR I wish I would have rented a larger P.O. Box and I wish I would have rented one closer to my relatives: It got overly full quite often, especially after spending nearly six months on the road.

I hope this helps.

Steve

Tammy, I don't see where anyone pointed out that Postal Service PO boxes cannot accept FedEx or UPS deliveries. You'd need a "private box", like a UPS Store.

Best deal is to set your address to a relative or a good, trusted friend.

Thanks y'all! We will most likely get a POB in the same city where our storage unit is located. Also working to go paperless with any mailing that offers such I suppose would be helpful.

Appreciate the responses .. love this forum!

Very good question, since there is no "Like/Helpful" button on the site, I'll create one:

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I've wondered the same, like you I am going as "paperless" as possible.

To expand on MJ J. questions - I assume most companies are fine to allow their drivers to "ship" things to a terminal and they will hold until your arrival?

You can rent a mailbox with a physical street address malbox inc goggle it Im going to use my brothers home address he lives in the same city I do

steve j

Just getting into trucking, but I've been living on the road for years. I have had a UPS box for decades. It's more expensive than a PO Box, but as previously mentioned it is a physical street address so FedEx & UPS will deliver boxes. I can call them every so often and they will go through my box and throw away/hold/forward each item. Or call them every day for a week or two to see if a promised paycheck has arrived :). I've had them hold items for as long as 6 months. If I'm traveling they can send an item to another UPS Store for me to pick up, similar to USPS General Delivery. Not sure if that will be useful while driving OTR since the time windows are smaller, but if you know you are likely to pass one multiple times it could work. But honestly the only time something has been that important/timely it has been work-related supplies, which won't be an issue as a driver.