T&T: Liveaboard address (was Boater Id)

[Elliott Bray]

A year before we sold the house, sold the car, and moved aboard we joined
the EscapeesRV club (www.escapees.com) and set up a Personal Mail Box (PMB)
through them. Consider, there are probably more RVs 'cruising' the country
than boats. They really know how to do it.

All our credit cards, bills, and almost all our business accounts were
pointed to the PMB while still in the planning stage.

As soon as we moved aboard we established Texas residency (the Escapees site
suggests how) and got drivers licenses with the Escapees address
(Livingston, TX). We were without a landbased home for almost 2 years. That
is still the permanent address we use for almost everything.

When relatively fixed to shore (like now), we tell Escapees to send our mail
once a week to where ever we are. On the move we plan a stop far enough
ahead to give then a 5 day lead-time. We try to have the mail sent to us in
care of General Delivery at a US Post Office. You can get the (big) Zip code
book that has then all listed. Canada doesn't quite work the same way. You
have to work out the delivery with each postmaster you use BEFORE they get
the mail package.

The mail service 'vetts' all the mail. I neither know nor care what happens
to the junk mail but we don't get it. A while back someone had asked about
medicine on the loop. We get our health plan medicine sent to the PMB which
gets forwarded to us.

Cost is something like $100/year plus ~$5.00 per bundle of mail.

HTH

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Elliott Bray, wintering in Austin, TX
M/V Letitia - Gulfstar 44 MC
In heated storage in Whitehall, Michigan
www.loopcruiser.com
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