This can be problematic for cruisers who don’t have any address other than their boat and is worth making sure your mail service has a plan for this. Banking institutions are getting increasingly savvy to any address that is commercial in nature the Patriot Act that passed after 9-11 requires that you have a residential address attached to any bank account. For many, there’s an emotional attachment to being a resident in a given state. There are financial considerations and voting considerations, for starters. Figuring out where you want to claim residency can factor hugely. Now what? How do you even start to narrow down the choices? Okay, reluctantly we agree we need a place to get mail. ![]() ![]() But you need a mailing address for things like voter registration, drivers licenses, those pesky tax documents at the end of the year, and even for credit cards that are increasingly how many of us transact business. Spending money every month for the random piece of important mail feels a little wasteful. Why deal with mail at all? Most of us have pared down what comes into the mailbox so that pretty much it’s all either junk or packages. There’s no sense in reinventing the wheel, after all, and they each offer some sound advice on what you ought to be considering. They’ve each chosen different services, but their articles are spot on for how to start thinking about the whole mess. I started by checking out what Behan Gifford at Sailing Totem and Carolyn Shearlock at The Boat Galley have to say about the matter. How on earth can you find what will work for you? Googling “mail forwarding” hands you over 55 MILLION hits in less than a second, and of course, the first 4 of those are ads. ![]() It’s both a blessing and a curse that these the availability of these services has exploded in the last 15 years. Time to pay someone to deal with our mail. Since this time our cruising plans are far more open-ended, we wanted to do the responsible thing and, well, be adults about it.
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