On 24/11/16 15:12, RobertL wrote:
On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 10:34:58 AM UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
An elderly friend is going abroad over Christmas for 5 weeks to visit
family, and wants to know what to do about his letterbox, which wont
hold 5 weeks of mail and would rather give the game away if left stuffed
with weeks old letters.

Poste Restante seems to only hold mail for two weeks.

What are the alternatives?



What about setting up 'mail redirection' to a friend's house? It does;'t cost much. He can cancel it when he comes home again.

Robert

He has organised another neighbour to come in and put the mail in a safe
place.


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