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Paper Mail (A single persistent routable mailing address)
Hire a paper to electronic mail processing and forwarding service [You'll get a new mailing address... keep this as private as possible.]
Do not fill a forwarding of address card. (This info gets relayed to private companies also.)
Remove your Home's Mail Box (or with permission from the land owner, lock the box.)
Check in on your electronic postal mail..and if necessary forward that mail to your current address (like your work, or if traveling General Delivery.)
And/Or you can have really important mail sent to your work or willing friend's home.
It would be good to switch all your mail (like statements and stuff..) to direct electronic.) But some Mail that may still have paper only option might be...
* Tax Papers
* DMV
* Bankcards and Verifications
* Voting Papers
* Jury Duty
* Checks (and Rebate checks - though perhaps rebate checks are best avoided.)
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* DMV must have a physical address (can use a friend or work.)
* DMV will also update your voter information.
* Jury Duty (in butte county at least) is pulled from DMV and Voter Information.
* Postal change of address you can list "Moved - No Forwarding Address"
* Taxes (so long as not waiting on checks) you can prob wait till fill out next years to update address.
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Perhaps you can tell people you have an "unlisted mailing address"
Land Line/Long distance
Get an Grand Central account... They are currently (2/08) in Beta and the service is free. (Also you could use a VoIP account like Skype or JaJah)
Cell Phone
Switch to TMobile 1 year cycle pay per minute use phone. ($100 of minutes gets you into the year cycle.) Use cell phones only in situations where you do not have access to a land line system, such as briefly while on the road or in coordination with a group of people on an outing.
Health Insurance
Get the least expencive plan you can cover on your own.. and create a savings fund with some of the extra money you save from the less expensive plan.
