Mail forwarding - update

From comments left on my previous entry about having mail dealt with, I've looked into a few other offerings of this service.  We would prefer a service where you can pay as you go rather than having to pay a membership fee.  Most Australians would have their mail back home dealt with by a family member or friend.  For us, thhere would only be a handful of items within the UK.

Other than UKPostBox there was another suggestion called Boatmail that also offers the service on a pay as you go basis.

Here are the links to their fee pages :
UKPostBox
Boatmail

For those who may want to investigate other services where there is a monthly or yearly fee payable :
Waterways Mail
Ship to shore

How can you receive mail while cruising?

One of the things we looked into a while ago was what to do about receiving your mail if you don't have someone who will allow you to use their address for your mail. There will be things that will need to be sent like bank statements, insurance documents, BW licence etc.

We've discovered a service called UKPostBox.com.  They give you an address to use for having your mail sent and then forward the mail on to wherever you want.  Or... they'll scan the mail for you to read.

There are various payment options : Pricing
For most people in our situation there wouldn't be a large volume of mail so the pay as you go service would be the best for us.

So the next question is how to get the mail from UKPostBox.com.  Royal Mail offer a service called Poste Restante where you can have mail sent to a post office and then collect it from there.  Royal Mail say this service is "subject to operational capability".  I guess that means you'd want to ring ahead to the post office and check that they will accept your mail on this basis.
More info :  Poste Restante