Should you forward mail weekly, twice a month, monthly, or every two months? Compare how consolidation changes provider handling fees and your own estimated postage.
This is a planning estimate for letters/mail. Package consolidation, dimensional weight, insurance, international customs, and carrier-specific pricing can change the real cost.
If you're deciding how often to have a virtual mailbox forward your mail, this tool compares weekly, twice-monthly, monthly, and every-two-month schedules using provider handling fees and your own postage assumptions.
It is designed to answer a practical question: whether fewer consolidated shipments could reduce annual forwarding costs.
| Provider | Handling assumption |
|---|---|
| Traveling Mailbox | $2 per shipment + postage, regardless of number of mail items in the shipment. |
| iPostal1 | No consolidation charge for letters; real-time carrier shipping price still applies. |
| Anytime Mailbox | $5 per shipping bundle + postage on the current generic offer; local operator terms can vary. |
| PostScan Mail | $2 first item + $0.50 each additional item in a shipment + shipping. |
Carrier postage is not fixed by the mailbox provider, so this tool uses your assumptions:
postage per shipment = base postage + extra postage × additional items.
That makes consolidation useful without pretending that a 20-letter package ships for the same postage as one envelope.