Getting post in France

[mikebiggles]

Going to tour around France for a month next year and am wondering how to get post from UK delivered to us in France.
We hadn't intended in staying in any one place for more than 3-4 days, so timing might be an problem.
Will French campsites accept post for campers staying on site ?
Anybody had the same issue and came up with a good solution.

 

[Jo May]

Poste restante?

 

[Figaro]

Do you get much post ?
Hardly anything drops on our door mat these days, apart from junk mail.
What does come I just get the offspring to open it if it looks important.
If someone will bundle it up and forward on, I'm sure a campsite would accept it if you know where your going to be

 

[yodeli]

YEP! Sure, any campsite will take your letters or parcels

Poste restante?

You can't have it if you move all the time! Poste restante is in one town, you can't make the mail follow you!

 

[sedge]

Is one reason we've both availed ourselves of things like receiving any mail from our hospital online - called Dot Post here and any other online thingies that become available. Eldest daughter is pretty good at spotting what might be important and telling us if it is. If not certain she will open it, read it and then decide - otherwise back in the envelope it goes on the pile not in the porch, separately from eg Camping & Caravanning Club and other such obvious magazines.

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[BaileySteve]

There are mail forwarding services where you redirect from your home address to a PO Box. The receiving company then scan and send you an electronic copy by email or in an app.

Can’t recommend any as never used but may be an alternative and allows you to move around freely. Several are available in a search for ‘mail forwarding services UK’.

 

[Neil S]

trusted family member reads our mail and anything important gets e-mailed to us or WhatsApp

 

[Jackdog]

ukpostbox.com offer a redirection and scanning service so you can read your mail online. I looked into this previously but in the end used Royal Mail redirection service to my daughters house

 

[Brains]

If it's only a month, I'd let it pile up on the doormat unless you are expecting something important.

Obviously you don't do any orders from Amazon in the last couple of weeks, and if you have not done it already, pay all your bills by direct debit.

I started travelling for work in the late 1980's, often away for weeks or months at a time, usually at fairly short notice.
I geared up my entire life to operate that way, and it still does.

I have fixed dates into 2026 when I need to be in certain places, but outside of those dates I could be off in two weeks time for a month and it would make minimal difference.

 

[cyberyacht]

I was away for six weeks earlier in the year. Nothing was that time critical that couldn't wait. We aren't that important. The world still revolves without us.

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[Brains]

I was away for six weeks earlier in the year. Nothing was that time critical that couldn't wait. We aren't that important. The world still revolves without us.

I'm the most important person I have ever met.

 

[Widge]

If you are receiving open checks or cash, you can use my address,