i feel your pain, Rev. used to happen to me all the time. especially when i was in the Navy and i used to travel a lot. i worried about receiving packages and i used to use either my mother's address or my sister's, but sometimes the packages get turned away coz i don't have my name on their lease and the landlord/lady will refuse it.

a Chief Petty Officer told me to get a private mailbox. not a P.O. Box, a private mailbox. like at UPS Store, Mailboxes, etc. or Postal Annex. it will have a real address, like for example - 12xxx Chapman ave #xyz, Anaheim, CA 91xxx.

some go as low as $9 a month. they all would give you 24 hr access to your box.
they will receive your pkgs, and hold it INDEFINITELY until you come and pick it up. they will have a little note in your box saying you have a pkg, see front desk clerk.

just a suggestion, Rev. works for me anyway.

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