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When I lived in Malaysia for a total of 12 years, I had all my mail sent to my home address and that included large packages, large cartons from overseas and even cargo sent by a freight forwarder. There was no need at all to look into having a PO Box.

For expats who work, rather than get a PO Box I would suggest having the mail sent to you office address if you don't have a home, otherwise have it all sent to your home address. Why pay for a PO Box when you have a home.

Mail always arrived safely .

Many expats live in a condo and all condos have a mail box for each individual apartment.

@Cheryl

mailboxes etc.. used to be in Avenue K and other places.

these days, almost nobody uses mail anymore.

DHL works for documents but are very expensive.

I had the same experience as Wyngrove. I never had a PO Box nor saw the need for one. Wherever you are living, thats the address. And, I never had anything sent to me UNTIL I was living somewhere. Packages from home, etc, were held back until I landed in something.

Íæż½ã½ãs without a place yet and staying in hotels, they would certainly receive packages for you.

In the old days in US, I had a home and a PO Box which I only used for business. It was common for businesses which even had legit offices to still use PO Boxes. Everyone used them but they faded. Today, businesses and others with high mail volume still use them for the purpose of routing. Tax offices might had 5 or 10 boxes as away of pre-sorting mail.

Íæż½ã½ãs with side businesses and who dont want a show a home address would benefit from a box. I have no clue how to set them up because requirements have changed so much. They might not allow you to have a box without some kind of visa, I dont know.  It would be good if an expat with a box could explain this and why they needed it.

After leaving the US in 2013, we originally counted on friends and family to scan us stuff. But that was short-lived and rightfully so. Thankfully, we started researching our options and found various mail forwarding services. I wrote a blog about which services are the best, their costs and what they offer. And which ones we've used. sandinmycurls.com/best-mail-forwarding-service/

We've lived in Malaysia and Mexico and there were never any problems with any of the services we used.