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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I am pretty sure you can call them in advance to say you will be in _____ on vacation and any charges from there should be cleared.
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Thinking about this aspect, do you really want to tell even your credit card company that nobody will be at your home? Of course it's unlikely a crook with contacts in your area will be working at your credit card company, but not impossible. Crooks do tend to try & get contacts into positions where they can find out when people are on vacation after all.
I don't have my mail or paper held. (I do have mail forwarded when I move to my other home. I probably shouldn't but I do. Convenience outweighs risk for that, IMO.) I have a trusted person stop by daily to check on the house, including putting anything delivered inside.
And yes, I now do tell my credit card company when I go on vacation. I don't want to but they've basically forced me to-and I resent that force.