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I am thinking about living in my Motor Home full time. How do you go about finding work in various parks, Mail forwarding things like that? Is there a website or a book that helps? Any and all information is very welcomed. Look forward to hearing from ya'll!!
Thomas
Thomas
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Permalink Reply by Kat on -
For mail forwarding, the US Postal Service will do that for a fee. The only catch (besides the fee) is that you have to use the same address for at least 2 weeks at a time. We've had mail forwarded to General Delivery a couple of times successfully. Using the Premium Forwarding Service costs an upfront fee of $13.95/week (ouch!) plus a one-time registration fee, but I don't know how much it is now. Sadly, these fees have gone up every year we've done this. Last year it was $11/week, which I thought was pretty bad (a dollar more than the year before), but when I went in to have it stopped after we got back to homebase last week, the clerk told me it had gone up nearly $2. Makes you wonder why the post office is going broke, doesn't it? However, this service is pretty good, since I just phone our home post office whenever we move to a new location, give them the address and they take care of it. Everything we get by mail is packaged up in a priority mail envelope and gets to us usually within 3 or 4 days.
You can use a cheaper forwarding service, but it takes longer to get to you, and they only forward first class mail, not everything. For more information see the "forwarding" section at http://usps.com
I don't have much information about finding work on the road, but there's a blog about that at http://rv.net (among other topics).
Good luck, and happy trails!
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Marks on -
Thank You for the info, I have been researching these sites all week. Very informitive.
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Permalink Reply by NorCal Dan on -
We joined workamper.com to find jobs. They are geared towards RV'ers and list hundreds of jobs.
For handling mail we joined the Escapee's club. They provide a mail service as well as a lot of other services for RV'ers. And you can use the club to establish residency in Texas.
There are many books available, here's a link to a good source for these types of products.
And if your interested in seeing some actual cost figure's that you can use to "guesstimate" your costs out on the road, I highly recommend Howard's RV-Dreams site.
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Durbin on -
We full time in our coach. There are books and tons of websites on the subject. I maintain http://www.fulltimeRV.us and from there you can find information and links to various resources.
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