0 a system in which a post office keeps someone's post until it can be collected, usually used by people who are travelling -- (郵局的)郵件寄存服務
Anyone can have a poste restante address or a post office address.
Thru-hikers can organize supplies for the journey far in advance, and have friends and family mail packages to predetermined stops along the way, to be picked up as poste restante.
He could send the forged letters to collectors who were interested in old letters or signatures, add a note that the sender needed money and give a poste restante address.