Parallel address

Would you like also to receive mail at a temporary or secondary address? Please provide us with a parallel address.

When we know which different addresses you want to receive mail to, we won't unnecessarily direct all your items to your permanent address. This ensures that the sorting machine identifies the correct address and the item arrives without delay.

A parallel address is a service for receiving incoming mail at a temporary address. For example, if you want to receive mail at your summer home, leisure home or second home, it’s a good idea to add these as your parallel addresses.

You can have more than one parallel address.
Parallel addresses can be used free of charge.
A parallel address will only receive items sent specifically to that address.

Example: Mikko wants the morning paper and the children want their hobby magazines delivered to the summer home through the summer holidays, while the rest of the mail can be delivered to the home address.

Mikko reports the address of the summer home to Posti as a parallel address and agrees on the time period for the publication redirection with each publication’s customer service.
In mail sorting, the name-address pair is identified and publications are redirected straight to the address of the summer home.
The publications are delivered to Mikko’s mailbox along the road to the summer home.

Frequentely asked questions

With only a few steps, you can start using a parallel address:

Inform Posti of the address you wish to use as a parallel address
Directly inform senders of the address at which you wish to receive your mail.

For instance, if you only want a newspaper or magazine delivered to your summer home for the summer holidays, you can arrange redirection for the publication to your parallel address directly with the publication’s customer service.

We deliver mail to summer home mailboxes that are in the same mailbox groups of permanent residents. See how to set up the mailbox.
If you want your mailbox elsewhere, for example, closer to the summer home, you can subscribe to the fee-based Nearby Mailbox at a Summer Home service and arrange a location for the mailbox.

If you want us to redirect all mail sent to your home address to your summer home, please request fixed-term forwarding. In order to receive your newspaper without delay, please provide the summer home address to Posti as a parallel address and ask the publisher to redirect the publications to the summer home.

A parallel address is useful when you want to receive mail at multiple addresses. When we know to which addresses to deliver your incoming mail, we won’t unnecessarily direct all items to your permanent address. Posti’s machine mail sorting recognizes the recipient’s name-address pair correctly, and the item is delivered without delay.

You can report a parallel address for yourself and for other mail recipients, such as your children, spouse or parents.

However, please note: When you enter a parallel address for several people at the same time, the address must be the same for each person.

Enter the parallel address in OmaPosti or the change of address web service. You can also submit a change of address notification by using a form at a Posti service point.

In the OmaPosti mobile app: Profile > My information > Edit information > Submit a notification of change of address. You can find the Add a parallel address button under your contacts.
In the browser version of OmaPosti: Services > Change of address notification (in drop-down menu). You can find the Add a parallel address button under your contacts.

OmaPosti is used with a Posti username, and the change of address service web service can be used with a Posti username, banking codes or mobile certificate. When submitting information in a form by mail, you must identify yourself.

Read the instructions for deploying OmaPosti

You can cancel your parallel address in OmaPosti or the change of address notification web service.

The parallel address is only used for redirecting mail and for mail delivery. No information is forwarded to the authorities.

Yes, but the most convenient way is to choose the nearest Posti Parcel Locker as the delivery address.