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(Nickoli) wrote:

Hi there,

This is a serious question even if it is a little unusual, if you are
a liveaboard how do you get post or mail? Do you have a PO box, or
something? If your moving constantly how do people send you things? or
don't they? Is it a life free from junk mail????

I'm thinking of one day living on a narrowboat as it sounds like a
fantastic life, perhaps I'm a little young at the moment (only 20) but
who knows anything is possible!

Depends on where and how you are living. Living aboard does not
always mean moving around. Lots of people live aboard at marinas or
in some relatively fixed location. There are even people that do that
who have regular jobs. In that case you can get mail at the marina or
at the PO.

If you are moving around, lots of people use a mail forwarding service
which has what is referred to as a PMB (private mail box). The
service holds or forwards mail as directed. You pay for this as you
would for a PO box in a regular PO, but a little more to account for
the cost of forwarding stuff. Sometimes the people that run the PMB
will also open mail and pay bills etc. Depends how you set it up.

In our case, we still have a house, so the PO forwards all our mail to
one of our children who takes care of things for us. We are not free
from junk mail, but it is thrown away by our daughter and I think
would also be thrown out by a PMB.

grandma Rosalie