{"id":2191,"date":"2020-09-02T19:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoveringtheworld.de\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2020-11-28T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T19:30:18","slug":"where-to-redirect-my-mail-when-i-travel-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rtw-trip.com\/where-to-redirect-my-mail-when-i-travel-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do I redirect my mail when I travel around the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Anyone who is on the road for a longer period of time needs a reliable way to get their mail on the road. Digitalization opens up excellent opportunities for world travelers to organize mail redirection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are traveling and no one is available at your postal address, the easiest solution is to hire a professional scanning service to receive and scan your mail. You will receive your letters via app or online.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We have had good experience with it for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most letters are so unimportant that we would probably not even notice if we did not receive them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But at the latest when it comes to invoices or official mail, a good solution is needed. Nothing is more annoying than paying reminder fees or risking a collection case just because invoices or notices do not arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course you can ask parents or friends to take the mail out of the mailbox and stack it somewhere. But is that enough? Shouldn’t everything (or most of it) also be opened and scanned? Do you really want to make someone so much work? And how do you feel when it comes to intimate matters such as credit card records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since we did not want to burden neither parents nor friends with the continuous work of mail scanning, we decided to use a professional provider and have been very satisfied with it for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With all providers except the post office you need a forwarding request<\/strong>, which you make at the German post office. This will forward your letter mail to the appropriate scanning service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the scan service, the envelope is first scanned and made available to you via app or website. Usually you will be notified by email (“You have mail!”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can decide how to proceed based on the sender:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you decide to scan, you will receive another message some time later that your documents have been scanned and you can view them via app or website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you can view, edit, download etc. Everything that is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We handle it in such a way that we have everything scanned, destroy unimportant things quickly and send all accumulated documents to my parents approximately every three months. There on the shelf, everything can be found again later, if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are now several professional providers of post-scan services. The two best known are probably Dropscan and Caya, but Deutsche Post itself also offers a service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The prices are difficult to compare because the services included are different. For this reason there is no price column in the overview table above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With all providers except the post office, about 34 euros must be added for the forwarding request at the post office (24 months). All information, especially the prices in this article, are valid as of September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Basically<\/span>: Dropscan is, next to Caya, one of the top dogs among the post-scan providers. All options include a scanbox, with up to 5 recipients. As a pair you can share one address, but you can also see the complete mail of the other. Only one email address can be stored for communication. In the info mails (“You have mail!”), however, the name of the recipient is in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy do I need such a thing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How does this work in detail with the professional post-scan services?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What professional providers of post-scan services are there?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Provider name<\/strong><\/td> Link<\/strong><\/td> Type<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Dropscan<\/td> https:\/\/www.dropscan.de\/<\/a><\/td> Letter post, registered mail, no parcels<\/td><\/tr> Caya<\/td> https:\/\/www.getcaya.com\/<\/a><\/td> Letter post, registered mail, no parcels<\/td><\/tr> E-Post<\/td> https:\/\/www.deutschepost.de\/<\/a><\/td> Letter post, registered mail, no packages, no PIN-TAN letters<\/td><\/tr> clevvermail<\/td> https:\/\/www.clevver.io\/<\/a><\/td> Letter post, registered mail, parcels<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n What do the individual service providers offer and what does it cost?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dropscan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n