Customers can receive their mail — no matter where they are

With the Postal Service’s Premium Forwarding Service (PFS), customers can continue receiving their mail while they’re away from home and living at temporary residences anywhere in the U.S.

Customers can use PFS from 15 days to one year. For a one-time enrollment fee and an additional weekly flat fee, USPS will package and reship a customer’s mail by Priority Mail once each week.

Customers can enroll online at usps.com or at their local Post Offices. Customers who enroll online must also update or pay for PFS online.

A customer applying for PFS at a Post Office must provide two forms of ID and evidence of residence at the primary address listed in the application. A customer who enrolls at a Post Office also must pay for and update the PFS service at the same Post Office.

USPS usually reships bundled PFS mail on Wednesdays. However, Express Mail items are forwarded directly to customers without delay. USPS reroutes separately and at no extra cost First-Class Mail items that don’t fit in a weekly PFS shipment.

Effective Jan. 27, 2013, the enrollment fee for PFS will be $15. The weekly shipment fee will be $17.