What do we do for a mailing address whilst we are living in the van?

Kathryn BirdFounder and Creator, Wandering Bird · Founder of the UK's largest motorhoming and road trip blog- Wandering Bird

What DO you do for a mailing address when living in a motorhome full-time?

5 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Kathryn Bird, who lived on a boat for 15 years, uses a family member's address for mail and relies on Amazon lockers for packages while traveling full-time in a motorhome. She stresses telling your insurance company you're a van dweller, since undisclosed living situations cause coverage problems.

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Use a trusted family member’s or close friend’s address, inform your insurance company that you’re a full‑time van dweller to get proper coverage, handle most paperwork online, and use parcel drop‑off locations such as Amazon lockers for physical deliveries.

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Welcome to The Truth About Van Life, where your questions get answered. This week's question is from Jane, who asked, what do we do for a mailing address whilst we are living in the van? Now, we've been living on a boat for a long, long time, about 15 years, way before we got a motorhome, so we're actually quite used to not having a permanent residential address, and what we have always done is use the address of a family member and occasionally a close friend. One thing that I wanna make really clear is that if you are going to be living in your van full-time, you make that very clear to the insurance company so that you're properly covered. There have been incidents where people aren't properly insured for things because they haven't made that clear, but you can get full-time living in a van insurance and then use a mailing address for things like bank statements and all the other things that need somewhere to be sent. But nowadays you can get an awful lot of stuff done online, so it's not quite as bad as it used to be. And for stuff like Amazon, they've got Amazon drop-off locations, which frankly are just magic. We use this as we travel all around the country. Hope that helps, Jane. Thanks for your question.