I put in a temporary mail forwarding request to my PO when we went to KW for the winter. I usually use their deluxe forward system where they hold our mail for a week at our local PO and then they put it in a Priority Mail envelope sent to us at the end of the week. That service now costs $17.00 a week, plus a $25.00 application fee. We are gone for 16 weeks. Do the math.
So...I decided to just have it forwarded to one of our son's house while we are gone. The net result is that we only got about half of our mail sent to them, none of the magazines we get and no bank, credit union or credit card mailings . The other half was either sent back to sender or never showed up. The mail that showed up usually took 16 to 18 days after the postmark for it to arrive at son's house. When I talked to the PO they said that when they got our mail at their location, it got sent back to the main PO in nearby Grand Rapids who then sent it across the state to Detroit where it was sorted for the temporary address, then sent back to the main PO in Grand Rapids who then sent it to the temporary forwarding address in Grand Rapids.