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How
do you pay
bills and get
mail?
by Don, Ron
and Pat
Don
asked:
We
want to go on
the road for
4-5 months a
year, but how
do you pay
your bills and
get
mail? The post
office will
only hold for
30 days.
We will live
in our house
the other 7 or
8
months. The bills keep
coming. Any
help, thanks
Don.
Ron
replied:
Don,
We have lived
"your
dream"
life for the
last four
years. We have
been out for 3
- 6 months
each year. We
have set up
auto pay by
credit card
for all
vendors
accepting it.
The others are
auto pay by
our checking
account with
overdraft
protection.
Pension checks
auto deposit
to checking. 1
call to each
monthly and I
can
"balance
the
books."
Bonus: We put
all travel
expenses on
the same
credit card
while on the
road. That
yields
Southwest
Airline rapid
reward free
miles. Only
$16,000 yields
2 one-way
tickets on
Southwest
Airlines. For
mail
management we
hire a friend
to sort and
forward
important
correspondence
to us by Priority
Mail as
arranged
monthly by
phone to the
friend. We use
cell phones
and laptops
for
communications
while on the
road. This
system works
very well for
us. It takes
some time and
effort to set
it up, but
once in place
it works well
with very
little worry
or effort.
Good luck and
good travels.
Pat
added:
Hi
Don, I have
been paying my
bills on line
for about 5
years with not
a bit of
trouble. I set
up my bill pay
on line
account with
my bank and
fill in the
amounts and
hit send. I
love it of
course, do it
at home also.
You can also
get a
notification
(or the actual
bill) sent to
you on your
computer.
(Save a tree)
I did not want
to bother
people with
sending me
mail, so the
first time I
just sent in a
bit more and
of course it
was a credit
the next
month. I put
ALL my
spending and
bills (that
will accept)
on a credit
card and have
earned almost
$1000. in gas
over the year.
Of course you
can not pay a
credit card
with another
credit card,
so that simply
comes from the
"on
line"
bill paying
from my bank.
Which of
course I hate
cause I don't
earn my points
for gas HA!!
Bill paying on
line is
probably more
safe than
mailing, their
security is
the best and
how many times
have we heard
of people
breaking into
mail boxes
etc. Hope this
helps!!
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Readers
comments:
Ken K
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Most fulltimers pay a fee to a mail forwarding service and you can get this service from most RV clubs. Some full-time RVers use the address of the mail forwarding service as their legal state of residence choosing a state that has no state income tax or a low annual RV registration fee. You can even register to vote in that state, and vote by absentee ballot.
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