When we leave on our trip, we have to make sure any ongoing bills get paid. In today's online world, you would expect this would be an easy process. And, it mostly will be - after some work is completed. Unfortunately, for years now many of my payments have been tied to my E-mail address at home. But, that's based on our TV/Internet cable service. Since we'll be closing that down, I have to make sure all accounts know about my now more permanent E-mail accounts (with Google Mail of course!).
For weeks now, I've been slowly changing accounts over. But, I still have dozens of accounts tied to the old E-mail (I've had it for 10 years now). Fortunately, most of the accounts don't have to do with financial matters - they're just memberships in various social networks, chatrooms, forums, etc.
As most of you know, we all still get regular mail. So, we will be using a mail handling service that specializes in helping sailing cruisers handle their mail. All mail will be set to go to that address. They will have instructions to open certain mail and communicate with us electronically when they need further instructions. Other mail (which can wait a while for us to see) will be forwarded to us at an appropriate destination on our itinerary (like a marina at the next island or country we plan to visit).
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You should check out Earth Class Mail. I signed up a few months ago to try it out and I thnk the service is great.
Patrick, I really like the sound of Earth Class. A digital/online solution for reading your E-mail sounds perfect for our needs. I'm going to need to call them to see if I understand their pricing.