I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but what I do is a temporary change of address. I think there's a $1 charge for that. It works great. I tend to start the forwarding a week ahead of leaving, with a hold mail at the other end. This makes sure nothing gets left in your mailbox at home. Then when the hold expires, the week's worth of mail gets delivered to you, and from then on you get your mail (minus junk mail) daily. Then, a week before going home, I end the temporary change of address, and put a hold on the mail at home, ensuring there's nothing left behind at the vacation place. Then when you get home, the hold ends and everything is back on schedule. It's all very easy to manage on usps.com.
The only issue I see is putting the hold on the mail in VI. I'm not sure if you can only hold mail in your name or not, and if you don't own the property at the far end, the hold mail might impact whoever owns the place. But no matter what, I'd never pay that much just to have mail forwarded. 95% of mine is worthless anyway.