Red Roads Fulltiming Family

Fulltiming FAQ's: Communication

1. How do you get your mail?

    We use the mail forwarding service available to members of Escapees. We pay a yearly service fee plus actual postage costs. When we sold the house, we completed a change of address form through the US Postal Service. Our new street address includes a PMB (personal mail box) number. Escapees mail service uses this number to identify our mail. When we want to receive our mail, we call the service and ask for our mail to be sent to us in care of a family member or friend whom we will be visiting. Sometimes we have it sent to General Delivery at a local post office. Sometimes the office of a campground will also accept mail for us. If wee have an avaliable physical address (not General Delivery), we are able to receive UPS and Fed Ex shipments, too.

2. How do you make phone calls?

    We can usually send and receive phone calls on our cell phone. Sometimes we use a prepaid phone card at a pay phone. This was necessary in Canada, where we had no cell phone coverage.

3. How do you get your e-mail?

    We have a satellite Internet dish. This works well most of the time. If we are someplace where we can't hit our satellite, we can use a web-based account to send mail. However, we seldom receive messages there, except in response to ones we've sent, because most people don't know about that account.