Be sure to designate the effective forwarding date on your change of address request. Additionally, you are required to check out with the Post Office, so that your mail may be forwarded to you after your departure. Prior to departing you should send out written change of address notifications to all your personal correspondents including all banks, magazine publishers, and creditors.

A complete forwarding address is required. You are required to notify the Post Office and leave specific written mail disposition instructions on a DD Form 2258 prior to your departure. If you are going on Leave or TAD for over 30 days your mail can be forwarded to your Leave or TAD address (domestic address only). During this temporary absence, you can authorize eligible personnel to come by and pick up your mail (although this is not a requirement). For your protection, only you or your command-sponsored spouse may provide us with mail disposition instructions and it MUST be done in person. If you are going on Leave or TAD for more than 5 consecutive days, you are required to notify the Post Office and leave specific written mail disposition instructions on a DD Form 2258 prior to your departure. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan Engineer District.374th Communications Squadron, OL-B Det.

Usps mail temporary forwarding form