There is no easy solution to you problem for short time mail fowarding. We will be gone for 3 months this winter and we have a friend who will check our mail and send us a mail package once a week(nojunk mail), we do the same for them in the summer when when they are gone. As for mail fowarding service by the tim you got every thing changed and working you would be back home.
We rented a box at our local Pack&Ship and have our mail temp forwarded to the box. We know the guy that owns it. We call him when we're ready for a delivery and he sends it to us by whatever means we want. Sometimes we overnight it other times we just do general delivery to the park we are staying at. When we get home we can stop the forwarding or let it continue if we want to go out again. It works out because he pulls out all the junk mail. So far it has worked flawlessly.
We have a post office box at a local post office from our home town. We use the premium mail service and they put my mail in an envelope or box and mail it to us one day weekly and its from 8.65 to 11 dollars per week. The PO box is 90 dollars a year. Only because we have a large mail box instead of the smaller box and we really dont want to get a smaller box since we full time rv and we would rather have as much mail as possible kept in our box than in a box and several other containers. They mail my VA meds with no problem just like any other mail.
Had a neighbor who used one of them mail services that people find in mall and such and when he tried to close his box and get his mail going back to his home he had one heck of a time. They did not want to close it and they did not want to forwared his mail back to his home and he had one heck of a time. And its one of the big name mailing stores that has mailboxes and sell boxes for packing and they do fedex and ups and so on. Sorry I dont know there name of the company off the top of my head.
I can't see the problem. The U.S. Post Office forwards mail to a box and when you get home all you have to do is tell your post office to stop forwarding. That's all we did. The box closes out at the end of the contract period. The only thing the Pack&Ship store did was send our mail to us on the road when we called for it. They don't control how your mail is forwarded from or back to your home.
