I'm just back five weeks. Also had to go to my local post office in Dallas in order to fill in forms. They told me my mail will be forwarded for 6 months and I may renew for a further six months. I've been receiving mail for two weeks to my house here.

It took a few go's to get ours forwarded (USA to UK) but after a few phone calls to the sorting office and a visit there by a friend we finally got it in place.




Mind you, I screwed up by placing an order at Staples for printer cartridges (I had a huge rewards discount to use) thinking they would get forwarded only to realise a month after they should have been here that they used UPS! My friend contacted the elderly couple who bought our house but they don't recall seeing a box on their doorstep (and I have delivery confirmation) so we lost them. Oh well!

Theres a thing called "mail boxes etc" that offers forwarding worldwide, but it isn't cheap.

http://www.mbe.com