Mail on the Road

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Mail on the Road

The above service has been around for several years now, but many caravanners have never heard of the service. As we see it this is really the only alternative if you cannot organise someone to clear your letter box whilst you are away and to redirect your mail. Using a family member, friend or neighbour as your postie often fails. What happens to your mail when they aren't reliable? Take a holiday? Move? Forget? Address mail incorrectly? Abuse your privacy? Have an accident? YOUR mail will NEVER be THEIR top priority. Landbase charge $20-00 per month - that is only $5-00 per week. This fee is payable in advance for the full period joined. Landbase Australia claim they provide the safest and most reliable mail-forwarding and message service available, nationally and internationally.

The advantages of using Landbase Australia include, reliability, confidentiality, having a single, stable postal address, receiving your mail when you want it, receiving your financial statements/accounts on time, family/friends can keep in touch easily, having a 7 day fax/telephone message service, a 7 day email service and your own personal postie 0900 - 1600 Monday to Friday

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In addition you will have the invaluable experience of a long-term world-cruising yachtie who, because of the problems she herself encountered with the erratic delivery of her mail by a friend whilst traveling, set up Landbase Australia on returning home several years ago, and was aided in doing so, by winning a Federal Government grant.

Below is taken from their website and shows how your mail has to be addressed - quite easy to follow actually.

YOUR NAME/S including initials (quote LBA NO in brackets)
C/- Landbase Australia, Locked Bag 25,Gosford, NSW 2250,Australia

As Landbase Australia receives your mail, a list is made of each sender's name and each item is placed into a B4 size envelope; this list is kept for 4 weeks only from date of posting. The envelope is buff-coloured and has a green border around the front 4 edges for easy identification at Post Offices/Caravan Parks etc.

Each envelope posted to you is consecutively numbered in the event that one may go astray. This enables Landbase Australia to advise you of the contents of that envelope, so that you can follow up. Please keep track of the consecutive numbers for your own peace of mind.

Each time an envelope of mail is sent to you, the actual cost of the postage paid, plus 40% of that cost as a handling fee, is subtracted from your advance postage deposit or balance thereof. The exception to this rule is that any B4 envelope weighing anything up to 500 gms will attract a minimum flat fee of $3-00 per envelope.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lbase/index.html