On our circumnav, we had our son pay our bills and hold mail until
someone came to join us. It wasn't an imposition as he was also
house-sitting -- living cheap. This was in the dark ages (1995-98),
but when we go cruising in Fintry, we'll set everything up to hit
either a credit card or as a direct debit to a checking account. I'd
be surprised if there were any vendors, except perhaps local Mom and
Pops, that you couldn't set up for automatically paying.

There are services that will open mail and pay bills. Most larger
banks' trust departments also will do this.

For a month or two, you could simply prepay all the ones you haven't
set up on autopay and have someone just look over the mail to make
sure you don't get a jury duty notice or something else to which you
must respond.

If you know the amount (by telephone from your mail opener or by
calling the vendor), you can pay anything off the internet now using
either your bank's bill paying service, paypal, or quicken, or, of
course, by the old fashioned way of mailing a check.

Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com

"Phil" wrote in message m...
What does everyone do with their mail when they go cruising? I will be gone
for only a month or two at a time. Is the easiest way to have someone stuff
a Priority Mail pack and send it weekly? We aren't on any set schedule.
I have as many bills as I can on automatic payment and charged to MC as I
can pay that online. There are always those ones that you have to write a
check for and mail that you do want.
Thanks
Phil