US Mail Forwarding Service to 190+ Countries
Get a real Massachusetts address, then have your US mail scanned, consolidated and forwarded anywhere in the world. USPS, FedEx, UPS and DHL at commercial rates, handled by a staffed team that has forwarded mail since 2007. Plans from $86.95 for 3 months.
- ★ 4.9/5 customer survey rating
- Same-day scanning available
- Free package consolidation
- You approve every shipping quote
Personal Mailbox from $86.95 for 3 months. 1-year plans include a free month. Cancel anytime.
- Forwarding to 190+ countries
- USPS, FedEx, UPS and DHL
- Customs forms prepared for you
- Every shipment tracked
- Junk mail shredded free
How Our Mail Forwarding Service Works
Mail forwarding through getmyUSmail runs on a simple loop. Your letters and packages arrive at our Tewksbury, Massachusetts facility under your private suite number. Our team logs each item and photographs the envelope the same day. An alert lands in your inbox, and you decide what happens next from any phone or laptop on the planet.
Choose forward, and we pack your mail, prepare the customs forms and send you an exact shipping quote. Nothing moves until you approve the price. Once you do, your shipment leaves with the next carrier pickup and tracking arrives in your email automatically. Most of Europe sees express shipments in 2 to 4 days. Standard international mail lands in 7 to 14 days at a fraction of the cost.
Choose scan instead, and urgent documents skip the plane entirely. A searchable PDF reaches your inbox within hours through our digital mail scanning service, which handles the tax notices, bank letters and contracts that cannot wait two weeks for a boat.
The rest of your mail waits in free storage, 30 to 90 days depending on plan, until enough accumulates for one consolidated shipment. That single habit, batching instead of forwarding piece by piece, cuts most customers' shipping bills by half or more.
Consolidation is free on every plan: many envelopes and parcels become one tracked shipment.
Commercial Mail Forwarding vs USPS Change of Address
Most people try the free USPS form first. Here is why half our customers arrive after it fails them.
| Capability | getmyUSmail forwarding | USPS change of address |
|---|---|---|
| How long it lasts | Permanent while you subscribe | 6 to 12 months, then expires |
| International destinations | 190+ countries, carrier choice | Not offered |
| FedEx, UPS, DHL packages | Received and forwarded | Not covered |
| See mail before it ships | Photo of every item | Forwards blind |
| Scan instead of ship | Same-day PDFs | Not offered |
| Junk filtering | Shredded free | Everything forwards |
| Batch shipments to save money | Free consolidation | Piece by piece |
| Cost | From $86.95 / 3 months plus postage | $1.10 verification fee |
USPS forwarding suits a domestic move between two fixed addresses. The moment you leave the country, travel long term or need packages from private carriers, it stops working, and returned mail starts costing you real money. A commercial mailbox rental with forwarding built in replaces the whole workaround.
Four Kinds of Customers, One Forwarding Desk
Americans overseas
Expats route IRS letters, bank cards, ballots and Social Security mail through one permanent US address. Urgent items scan the same day, the rest ships monthly. The expats mailbox page covers full setups by situation.
International shoppers
US retailers refusing overseas delivery ship to your Tewksbury address instead. We receive, consolidate and forward, or our shopper assistant makes the purchase for you when a store rejects foreign cards.
Businesses and sellers
Companies keep a US commercial address for returns, supplier samples and marketplace verification, then forward inventory paperwork wherever the team sits. The Business Mailbox adds a free registered agent.
Travelers and snowbirds
RVers and seasonal residents point everything at one address and trigger a forward whenever they land somewhere long enough to receive it. Weekly, monthly or on-demand batches follow the calendar.
International Mail Forwarding, Region by Region
Every region has its own carriers, customs quirks and sweet spots. After nearly 20 years we know them by heart.
Europe & UK
Express documents land in 2 to 4 days by DHL or FedEx. Consolidated boxes ride USPS Priority International in 6 to 10 days. We prepare CN22 and CN23 customs forms, so packages clear without surprise phone calls.
Gulf & Middle East
Dubai, Riyadh and Doha run almost exclusively on express couriers. Our UAE customers typically batch monthly and ship DHL. Full local detail lives in our UAE and Dubai forwarding guide.
Canada & Mexico
Ground options keep costs low for our second-largest customer base. Letters bundle affordably by USPS First-Class International, and larger parcels cross by UPS Standard without air surcharges.
Asia & Pacific
Australia, Japan and Singapore see reliable 3 to 5 day express service. Weight drives price here more than anywhere, which makes free consolidation and junk shredding worth real money on every shipment.
Wherever you land, the workflow stays identical: photo alert, your decision, exact quote, tracked shipment. You never wake up to a surprise charge, because nothing ships until you approve the price in writing. Moving between regions changes nothing either. Customers who spend winters in Spain and summers in Ontario keep one US address year round and simply switch the destination on their next batch. The address on file with banks and agencies stays constant while your life moves.
Scan requests usually complete within hours. Tax season stops being a race against airmail.
Mail Scanning Cuts Your Forwarding Bill in Half
The cheapest shipment is the one that never flies. Every plan includes mail scanning: tell us to open an envelope, and its pages reach your inbox as a searchable PDF, usually within business hours the same day.
Customers scan the urgent 20 percent, tax notices, bank letters, insurance documents, legal mail, and let the physical 80 percent wait for a monthly consolidated box. A typical expat spends $20 to $40 a month on postage this way instead of $100+ forwarding everything blind.
Scanned originals then follow your standing instructions: hold for the next batch, shred securely, or ship immediately when you need the paper itself. Checks get deposited for $3 each without crossing an ocean twice.
Heavy scanners outgrow page allowances fast. The Virtual Office plan raises the allowance to 20 pages a month with same-day turnaround, which is why accountants and attorneys living abroad usually land there.
What Mail Forwarding Costs, With Nothing Hidden
Your plan covers receiving, alerts, scanning allowances and storage. Postage bills at discounted commercial carrier rates you approve first. Typical ranges below.
| Shipment | Typical carrier | Typical cost | Transit time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urgent letter, scanned instead | Email PDF | Included in plan | Same day |
| Monthly letter bundle to Europe | USPS First-Class Intl | $15 to $30 | 7 to 14 days |
| Express documents worldwide | FedEx or DHL | $45 to $70 | 2 to 4 days |
| Consolidated 5 lb box, international | USPS Priority Intl | $55 to $90 | 6 to 12 days |
| Domestic forward, any state | USPS Priority | $10 to $25 | 2 to 4 days |
| Junk mail and catalogs | Shredder | Free | Immediate |
Compare that against the hidden version at app-based forwarders: per-item handling fees, storage charges after a week, envelope-opening fees and postage markups. Our pricing page lists every add-on in one place, and a person at 978-851-0199 explains any quote before you pay. 1-year plans add a free month, which usually covers a month of postage by itself.
Pick a Plan and Start Forwarding This Week
Personal Mailbox
$86.95 / 3 months
$169.95 for 6 months · $299.95 for 1 year + 1 month free
- Real Massachusetts street address
- Forwarding to 190+ countries
- 10 scan pages monthly
- 30-day free storage
- Letters and very small packages only
- 1 user
- Free consolidation
Business Mailbox
$135 / 3 months
$246 for 6 months · $450 for 1 year + 1 month free
- Everything in Personal
- Free MA registered agent
- 15 scan pages monthly
- 60-day free storage
- Letters and boxes up to 1 cubic foot
- 3 users
- Commercial shipping rates
Virtual Office
$169.50 / 3 months
$320.40 for 6 months · $599 for 1 year + 1 month free
- Everything in Business
- 20 scan pages monthly
- 90-day free storage
- Packages up to 1.5 cubic feet
- 5 users
- Dedicated account manager
- Same-day scan requests
Start Mail Forwarding in Four Steps
Choose your plan
Pick a tier on the pricing page and check out online in about 15 minutes. 3-month, 6-month and 1-year terms work from any country.
Sign USPS Form 1583
Federal rules require this form before any forwarder touches your mail. Two IDs, one notarized signature, and remote online notarization works worldwide. Our 1583 guide prevents the common rejections.
Redirect your mail
Update banks, the IRS and subscriptions to your new suite at 1215 Main Street, Tewksbury, MA, or file a USPS change of address pointing here so strays follow automatically for a year.
Forward on your schedule
Set weekly, monthly or on-demand batches. Approve each quote by email, then track every shipment to your door. Change destinations any time you move, no paperwork.
Three Kinds of Mail Forwarder, and Which One You Actually Need
The phrase "mail forwarder" covers three different businesses. Picking the wrong kind costs people months of headaches.
CMRA mail forwarders
USPS-registered facilities like ours, built for letters and documents first: bank statements, government notices, cards, plus everyday packages. Regulated ID verification, scanning, storage and worldwide forwarding under one roof. Right for expats, travelers and businesses whose important mail keeps arriving in the US.
Package freight forwarders
Shopping-focused warehouses near tax-free states, built for retail parcels in bulk. Most refuse regular letter mail entirely, and none may legally receive your IRS or bank correspondence without CMRA registration. Right for heavy shoppers, wrong for your life admin.
App-based address resellers
Software layers selling addresses inside pack-and-ship stores. Cheap entry pricing with per-item fees on everything and store clerks handling your documents. Fine for a light-use second address, risky for mail that carries deadlines.
Most people searching for a mail forwarder need the first kind and discover the difference only after a package freight service bounces their bank card back to the sender. If your mail includes anything from a government agency, a bank or a court, a registered CMRA is the only category built for the job.
A Month of Mail Forwarding, Hour by Hour
Week one: four envelopes arrive. Your phone shows photos of each by early afternoon. A state tax notice gets scanned the same day and its deadline goes on your calendar from a cafe in Barcelona. The other three wait in free storage.
Week two: a replacement debit card and two magazines land. The card joins the hold pile. The magazines get one tap to shred, free, because nobody pays airmail rates for last month's recipes.
Week three: an Amazon package your parents insisted on sending arrives from a carrier USPS forwarding would have refused. It waits safely with the rest, photographed and logged.
Week four: you tap forward. We consolidate the card, the letters and the package into one box, prepare the customs declaration, and email a quote of $58 by USPS Priority International. You approve from your phone, tracking arrives an hour later, and the box lands in six days.
Total effort on your side across the month: roughly three minutes. Total postage: less than one blind express forward would have cost for the card alone. That rhythm, scan the urgent, batch the physical, shred the junk, is the entire skill of mail forwarding, and the mailbox app makes it automatic.
Standing instructions do the work
Set defaults once and stop thinking: scan everything from the IRS on arrival, shred all marketing mail, batch forwards on the first Monday monthly, always use express for anything from your bank. Our team applies your rules to every item, and you only hear about the exceptions.
Six Questions to Ask Any Mail Forwarding Service
Run every provider through this list, including us. The answers separate a mail room from a middleman.
1. Are you a registered CMRA?
Ask for USPS CMRA status and Form 1583 handling. Unregistered forwarding puts your mail in a legal gray zone and gets addresses rejected by banks. We registered in 2007.
2. Who packs my shipment?
Employees of the forwarder itself, or whoever staffs a partner store counter today? Chain of custody matters most on the exact items you cannot replace.
3. Do I approve costs first?
Insist on written quotes before charges. Postage markups and surprise handling fees hide in fine print at cheap forwarders. Every forward here starts with a quote you approve.
4. Is consolidation free?
Batching is where international savings live. If consolidation carries per-package fees, your real monthly cost doubles quietly. Ours comes free on every plan.
5. How long is free storage?
Short windows force rushed shipping decisions. Look for 30 days minimum. Plans here hold mail 30, 60 or 90 days at no charge.
6. Can I reach a person?
Call before you buy. When a customs form needs fixing at 4pm on a Friday, a ticket queue costs you a week. Our line is 978-851-0199, answered by the people handling the mail.
Switching Forwarders Takes One Afternoon
Sign up here first so your new suite number exists before anything else changes. Complete Form 1583 with online notarization, then update the addresses that carry deadlines: IRS and state tax, banks and brokerages, insurance, payroll. Most customers finish the critical list in an hour using the checklist from our welcome email.
At the old provider, request one final forward of stored mail to your new Tewksbury address and close the account. Leaving a home address instead? File a USPS change of address pointing here and strays follow automatically for a year while you update senders at your own pace.
Timing matters when checks, cards or tax documents are in flight. Call 978-851-0199 before you cancel anything and we map the handoff with you so nothing bounces mid-move.
What customers say changed
The pattern in reviews after switching: quotes instead of surprise fees, one team instead of a ticket queue, and consolidated boxes that cost half of piece-by-piece forwarding. The address on file with their banks finally stopped changing every time a provider shut down.
Mail Forwarding Built for Business Paper
Business mail carries deadlines personal mail never does, and the cost of missing one lands on the company, not the mail carrier. A missed state notice becomes a penalty. A missed service of process becomes a default judgment. Our forwarding desk treats company mail accordingly: legal and government envelopes get flagged on arrival, scanned the same day under standing instructions, and the originals ship wherever your operations sit.
Remote companies run their whole US paper trail this way. The Business Mailbox pairs forwarding with a free Massachusetts registered agent, so state filings, lawsuits and annual report notices flow through one accountable address. Sellers add returns handling on top: customers ship returns to Tewksbury, we photograph condition on arrival, and inventory forwards back to your fulfillment center in consolidated batches.
Accountants and attorneys living abroad round out the picture with 20 pages of scanning a month on the Virtual Office plan, where client documents become same-day PDFs and the paper archive stays safely in one place until you need it shipped.
Common business setups
A Shopify brand in Portugal forwarding supplier samples monthly. A consulting LLC in Dubai scanning every IRS and state envelope on arrival. A Boston startup routing investor paperwork to founders on two continents. A New Hampshire contractor using the address for Massachusetts license mail. Same desk, same rules, different rhythms. Tell us yours and the forwarding schedule bends around it.
What Separates a Real Mail Forwarder From an App
One team touches everything
Apps like iPostal1 resell counter space in thousands of stores. Here, the person who photographs your envelope, packs your box and answers 978-851-0199 works in the same building. When customs holds a package, someone who packed it fixes it. See the full comparison against Earth Class Mail.
USPS-registered since 2007
We operate as a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency under federal oversight, with Form 1583 records and chain of custody on every box. Your bank statements never pass through gig workers or unvetted hands.
Quotes before charges
Every forward starts with an exact price in your inbox. Approve it or change the plan: hold longer, drop items, switch carriers, split the batch. Customers leave cheap forwarders over surprise fees. Nobody leaves over a quote.
Forwarding Customers on Making the Switch
★★★★★"Consolidation cut my shipping to the UAE roughly in half. Real humans answer the phone, which the cheap apps never did."
★★★★★"Made our life easier. We kept in touch with our US mail while abroad, and tax season stopped being a panic."
★★★★★"My bank card reached Portugal in three days with tracking the whole way. The quote came first, exactly as promised."
More reviews on the testimonials page.
Mail Forwarding FAQs
How does mail forwarding work with getmyUSmail?
You get a real street address at our Tewksbury, MA facility. Mail arrives, we photograph it the same day, and you choose scan, forward, store or shred in the mailbox app. Forwards ship worldwide by USPS, FedEx, UPS or DHL after you approve an exact quote.
How much does mail forwarding cost?
Plans run $86.95 to $169.50 for 3 months, less per month on 1-year terms, and cover receiving, alerts, scanning allowances and storage. Postage bills separately at discounted commercial rates. A typical overseas customer spends $20 to $40 a month on shipping by scanning urgent items and consolidating the rest.
Which countries do you forward to?
190+ countries across Europe, the Gulf, Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas. You pick carrier and speed per shipment, and we prepare the customs paperwork for every international box.
How fast does forwarded mail arrive?
Express reaches most of Europe and the Gulf in 2 to 4 days and Asia-Pacific in 3 to 5. Standard international runs 7 to 14 days at a much lower price. Domestic forwards land in 2 to 4 days.
What is package consolidation and what does it save?
We combine multiple letters and parcels into one box before shipping, free on every plan. International postage prices per shipment, so ten items in one box regularly cost half of what ten separate forwards would. Details on the consolidation page.
Do you forward packages from FedEx, UPS and Amazon?
Yes. Unlike a PO Box or USPS forwarding, our street address accepts every carrier, including signature-required deliveries, then forwards them anywhere you are. Package capacity depends on plan: Personal covers letters and very small packages, Business up to 1 cubic foot, and Virtual Office up to 1.5 cubic feet.
Why do I need USPS Form 1583?
Federal regulation requires it before any commercial mail receiving agency handles your mail. Two IDs and a notarized signature, with remote online notarization working from any country in about 10 minutes. Follow our step-by-step guide.
Do you prepare customs forms?
Yes, we complete CN22 and CN23 declarations and carrier paperwork for every international shipment. Accurate declarations from an experienced shipper mean fewer holds and faster clearance.
What happens to junk mail?
We filter and shred obvious junk free, so you never pay international postage on a catalog. Anything borderline waits in your queue for your call.
Can I forward mail without living in Massachusetts?
Yes. Around half our forwarding customers have never visited. Everything runs through the mailbox app, email quotes and a phone line with real people, from any time zone.
Can I change my forwarding address when I move?
Any time, in one click, at no charge. Your US address stays constant while destinations change, which is exactly why travelers and expats keep the service for years.
How do I stop or pause forwarding?
Pause shipments and let storage hold your mail free within plan limits, or cancel entirely with no fee. We forward or return remaining mail per your instructions and close the USPS paperwork cleanly.
More answers on the FAQ page or from a human at 978-851-0199.
Guides for Serious Forwarders
Forwarding decisions get easier with real numbers and real rules in front of you. These guides come from nearly 20 years of packing boxes and answering the phone, not from a content mill. Start with the one matching your situation, then call with whatever the guide left open.
Not sure which setup fits?
Tell us your country and what kind of mail matters most, and a mailbox specialist maps the cheapest reliable setup before you spend a dollar. Call 978-851-0199 during business hours, text 978-528-3505, or email info@getmyusmail.com. Replies come within one business day.
Start Forwarding Your US Mail This Week
Pick a plan, sign Form 1583 online, and your Massachusetts address goes live within 48 hours. From there, your mail follows you to any of 190+ countries, one approved quote at a time.
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