Madison, WI — The Madison Post Office offers Premium Forwarding Residential Service, a personalized service for reshipping mail from a primary residential address or Post Office Boxes to a temporary address using Priority Mail Service with USPS Tracking Service.

“It is perfect for residential customers going away from home for two weeks up to one full year,” said Madison Postmaster Paul Nistler. “This can include executives on temporary assignments, students, and individuals with an extended family care situation or customers who are away on an extended vacation.”

Some of the benefits of Premium Forwarding Residential Service include:

• Customers do not miss important mail while they are away.
• A customer’s permanent address does not change, and temporary address information is never provided to senders.
• All of the customer’s mail reaches them, most of it via Priority Mail Service with USPS Tracking.
• Post Office weekly mailing goes out the same day (Wednesday) every week on a regular schedule that customers can depend on.

Premium Forwarding Residential Service is not available for business addresses, APO, FPO, and DPO addresses, single-point delivery addresses such as RV parks, hospitals, hotels, and U.S. Department of State addresses.

There is a one-time enrollment fee of $17 and a weekly forwarding fee of $17.00. Mail is packaged every Wednesday and shipped to the customer via Priority Mail service. This service delivers mail in 1, 2, or 3 days depending on distance.

To learn more about Premium Forwarding Residential Service, go to www.usps.com, visit the Madison Post Office, or call the Postmaster at 608-246-1329.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

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