virtual addresses
to put your motorhome or caravan on the postal map!
Over half a million people in the UK live full-time in motorhomes, static caravans and tourers.
Some choose to stay on official 'Residential' sites, paying normal utilities and council tax. Many, however, own or rent a static van on Holiday Parks, which often close down for a month or so each year in order to maintain their non-residential status.
the problem is...
Whichever type of site you choose, or if you are living full time in a motorhome, you will soon discover that life can be a nightmare without a genuine, Royal Mail postal address for your bank, credit card provider, insurance company, the passport office, TV Licensing, HMRC or DWP. Even on-line retailers and couriers won't deliver to a numbered PO box or leave parcels with a Park's reception office, and using a friend or relative's address for your correspondence is fraught with complications.
the solution
is child's play with a vanpost account!
Costing as little as 60p a day, a vanpost mailbox account gives you a virtual street address with up to five different named users, free mail forwarding and a secure scan option for urgent letters. You can now have a fixed postal address for your own private correspondence ( including parcels ), or for business use, which means that living full-time in a caravan or motorhome no longer prevents you buying or trading online!
it's surprisingly simple
Your letters, packets and parcels are delivered to a unique address at the Mail Centre of your choice, where they are identified by any of your five User names, signed-for if necessary, sorted, and stored in your mailbox. You can then log in to your secure on-line control panel at any time and tell us how, when and where you want us to physically forward your mail ( read about 'Poste Restante' in forwarding ), or scan letters to your secure viewer for instant access ( see 'scanning' ).
your names, our addresses
Because many businesses, banks, credit card and insurance companies, couriers and authorities, including HMRC, will not deliver to, or even recognise, an obviously numbered PO box, every vanpost mailbox has a real postal address that it inherits from the Mail Centre of your choice.
but which address?
selecting your regional mail centre
We currently have eight fully active regional Mail Centres around the UK, with four more to be launched next spring. Because all mail is scanned or forwarded, you can hold an account at any regional Centre and your letters or parcels will still reach you, wherever you are in the world!
Click the postal address examples below to visit each Mail Centre's own website
We realise that many people prefer an address that either reflects their place of origin ( even though they may be on the road and constantly travelling! ), and some business mailbox account holders may want to present a 'local' face. Our national network of regional Mail Centres has been designed to provide just such coverage, further detailed in the descriptions below.
south wales
Our longest established regional Mail Centre is located in the centre of Swansea, perfectly situated to provide a generic South Wales address for customers from Cardiff, Pembrokeshire, Newport, Bridgend, Llanelli or Carmarthen.
midlands
Our Midlands regional Mail Centre is located in Telford, providing virtual accommodation addresses to customers from Stoke in the north, Nottingham and Derby to the east and south across the rest of the West Midlands including Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Worcester.
south east
Located in Cambridgeshire, this Centre provides a prestigious accommodation address close to London, for customers across the capital, the home counties, Essex and East Anglia including Northampton, Bedford, Luton and Watford, Colchester and Romford.
south west
With a central Taunton address, our South West regional Mail Centre provides a west country presence for customers wanting a PO Box close to Bristol and Gloucester. Serving Swindon, Bath and Bournemouth, plus Plymouth, Exeter and Torquay in Devon.
northern ireland
Providing a UK address in Northern Ireland, this brand new Mail Centre, serving the entire BT postcode area including Belfast and Londonderry / Derry, is already proving an attractive option to customers from the Republic of Ireland, perhaps as a hedge against Brexit.
scotland
The expost Scottish Mail Centre is located in Dunfermline, north of Edinburgh, and serves customers from Glasgow and Dundee, to Aberdeen and the Highlands & Islands with an address north of the border.
london
Our flagship, and the latest of our regional Mail Centres to launch is in the heart of East London, providing a virtual business or private presence for anyone seeking a prestige address in the Capital!
south
With exclusivity across the Southern Counties, we are inviting enquiries for our Mail Centre South Licence.
. . .read the Licence Prospectus!
north west
Ideally located in Greater Manchester, we are now inviting enquiries for the North West regional Mail Centre Licence, with guaranteed exclusivity across all of Lancashire, Merseyside and Cheshire.
. . .read the Licence Prospectus here!
yorkshire
Are you in Leeds, Bradford or Sheffield? We are now inviting enquiries for our Yorkshire Mail Centre Licence.
. . .read the Licence Prospectus here!
north east
With guaranteed exclusivity all the way from Hull, to Berwick upon Tweed, we are now inviting enquiries for the North East Licence, ideally with an address location in Newcastle upon Tyne.
. . .read the Licence Prospectus now!
business or private. . .
which do I need and how do they differ?
Although both can receive letters and parcels for up to five named Users and are exactly the same price, we still need to record the status of each mailbox so, if your account is only to be used for your own personal correspondence, select 'Private'.
Click on 'Business' if you intend to use your virtual address for any kind of commerce or trading, or if you want to include a business name as a User. As a bonus, if you take a 12 month Business account you can also use it as the registered office address for up to four Companies, at no extra charge!
. . .about the account holder!
In order to simplify the required identity verification process, every mailbox account, whether private or business, must be registered with a named individual as the Account Holder. On agreeing to be bound by our Terms and Conditions, the Account Holder is then responsible for the legal, moral and ethical use of the mailbox and compliance with current legislation.
affordable, fixed, pricing
guaranteed for the lifetime of your account!
Already much cheaper than a numbered PO box from the Royal Mail, our straightforward charges are frozen for as long as you hold a continuous account with us. Two years, or twenty years from now, you will only ever pay the prices as they are shown in this website on the day you register. We absolutely guarantee never to charge you more to renew your account, handle your mail, or scan your letters!
live support
always here when you need us
Our Mail Centres are open 364 days a year to receive, sign-for and secure your letter post and parcels. Most importantly, live support is available by telephone or email from 8am every weekday morning, including Bank Holidays, so you always have access to our help and advice when you need it.
Sadly, the photo above is not us. . . we are nowhere near that photogenic! ;o)
about vanpost
vanpost, canalpost, expatpost and expost are all trading styles of Expost Holdings Limited, registered in the UK. After operating without a break for 16 years as 'The Post House' in Yorkshire, we relocated the business to West Wales in 2010, incorporated as Expost in February of 2015 and began launching our network of regional Mail Centres the following year.
