Last year we went to Chloride Az and had our mail forwarded to General Delivery there as we have in the past. It was the second week of August 2014 and spent two weeks there. Then we went to Blanding Ut and had Chloride change our General Delivery to Blanding Ut. Well, the Post Mistress in Chloride changed our address to Blanding Ut permanently. 

When we got home at the end of October we received some mail but nothing from our checking statements, credit card statements and other important mail.I tried several times at the post office to get it cleared up when I found out our address had been permanently. Our address is still not corrected but the Blanding post office has been sending me our mail each week. They are nice people there and we know them well for four years now of visiting there. 

We may have to move to Blanding so we can get all of our mail because the Post Office can't seem to get our address changed back to our real home address. Has anyone else had this issue with our ignorant Post Office personnel?? How do you handle your mail when your on the road for a month or a year?? 

We did three things that made our travel life stress free as far as mail/bills/payments go.

1-We got a box at the UPS store and changed our address to that, permanently and for everything.  They hold our mail for however long we may be gone, no 30-day limit, and will send it to us if we request them to.  Of course this means we have a yearly box fee, and we have to pay the postage whenever they send us our mail (but that doesn't happen very often).  We tell them when we are leaving town and how long we will be gone, even if it is only for a week. Our particular staff is very friendly and we have never had a problem.

2-We had our credit card bills switched to paperless billing so that we get emails when our statements are ready.  We print the statement, then schedule the payment online from our bank.  For our house utilities (electric, water, gas, cable) we set up automatic payments so those bills are always paid too through the respective company.

3-Our gas and electric companys offer what they call budget billing so you pay the same amount every month, whether you are home or not. For the months when we are gone we are overpaying but also the months we are home we are underpaying.  We are in Arizona, so during the summer when running the a/c we may only be paying $80/month when our actual usage is $150; then in the winter we are still paying $80 when our usage may be $30.  It all works out, once a year they adjust our payment to be closer to actual usage; they don't want you to get way ahead, or way behind.

Having as much as possible done automatically or online has worked very well for us for the last five+ years.  It may (or may not) be something you could find helpful.