{"id":1580,"date":"2024-06-27T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?page_id=1580"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:13:24","slug":"maildrops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/privacy\/maildrops\/","title":{"rendered":"Maildrops"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 Features a top maildrop \/ mail forwarding service should have:<\/h1>\n
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  1. Privacy oriented. Don’t collect more information than necessary. Don’t give our information except if served a court order<\/li>\n
  2. Reasonably priced and no opaque pricing<\/li>\n
  3. Stable. The address should not suddenly change to a different location. Yes, this happens.<\/li>\n
  4. Not obviously a mailbox. Nothing raised more flags than “PO Box, Mailbox, Receiving service” in your address<\/li>\n
  5. If you are lucky, you may be even able to receive your bank statements there. If problems occur, try to give a residential address and the mailbox as a mailing address<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Many websites recommend mail forwarding services without having any personal experience with them, often basing their recommendations on superficial research. A quick Google search and some copying and pasting can easily result in a list. However, we have carefully selected a few reliable mail forwarding services to recommend here.<\/p>\n

    Our mailboxes are suited for RVers, Digital Nomads, Privacy Seekers, Small Business Owners, Home Business Owners, Frequent Business Travelers, Leisure Travelers, Boaters\/Cruisers, Merchant Mariners, Traveling Nurses, Missionaries, Adventurers, Athletes, College Students, Entertainers, Expats, Artists, Armed Forces, U.S. Sailors, Retired Military, Skilled Workers, Truckers and Anyone on the go!<\/p>\n

    USA<\/h1>\n

    Simple. There’s nothing better than SBI Mail<\/a>. The only downside: Florida has started charging taxes on online orders. Those were the days when everything from eBay and Amazon was tax-free.
    \n    Escapees<\/a> is another excellent option in the US, offering mailboxes, forwarding, and residency (for US residents) in Florida, Colorado, and Texas.<\/p>\n

    Another mailbox in Florida: MyRVmail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    \nAll of these options are strongly tailored towards RVers, traveling nurses and Boaters\/Cruisers. This is exactly why these offers are particularly suitable.<\/p>\n

    New Zealand<\/h1>\n

    Pirvate Box<\/a> has been around a long time and always also had a reputation for privacy.<\/p>\n

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    Germany<\/h1>\n

    Simple. By far the best mailbox is mailboxde.com<\/a><\/p>\n

    Recommended by some of our competitors: BPM-Lux.<\/a> Comparably expensive, went to a change of ownership as far as we know. Not<\/strong> recommended by us.<\/p>\n

    Honorably mention: Grenzpaket<\/a>. Mainly for people living in Switzerland. There are some advantages, since not all shops ship to non-EU Switzerland.<\/p>\n

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    Other Countries in Demand<\/h1>\n

    China TipTrans<\/a> offers at least some kind of forwarding. We have no personal experience with this provider. There are a good deal of mail\/package forwarders in Japan (e.g. Blackship<\/a>), feel free to google.<\/p>\n

    In some countries, it is notorious hard to find a reliable mailbox \/ mail forwarding provider that may also receive bank mail etc. The following countries come to mind:
    \nChina, Hong Kong, Panama, Brazil. Very difficult to find a reliable service there. And no, the Mailboxes Etc in Panama and Brazil stores are not really an option. If you know any goo d mail forwarding providers that are privacy-oriented, reasonable priced, don’t have “Mailbox, PO BOX” or something in their mail receiving address and have a decent online mail management software, please contact us.<\/p>\n

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    World Wide<\/h1>\n

    Best solution for many countries, even countries like Brazil: iPostal1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    ClevverMail tries to open maildrops in many jurisdictions in the world. And there are reasons why you should NOT use them.\u00a0<\/a>
    \n    Earthclassmail<\/a>, now part of Legalzoom, is comparatively expensive and is not recommended by us.<\/p>\n

    Ghostaddress in Wyoming<\/h1>\n

    As recommended by JJ Luna<\/a> in “How to be invisible. See in our shop.<\/a><\/p>\n

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    5 Features a top maildrop \/ mail forwarding service should have: Privacy oriented. Don’t collect more information than necessary. Don’t give our information except if served a court order Reasonably priced and no opaque pricing Stable. The address should not suddenly change to a different location. Yes, this happens. Not obviously a mailbox. Nothing raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1580","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1580\/revisions\/2078"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}