Moving house address change

harasmc

Hi everyone

I am moving house in the next couple of weeks and I have found a website that offers to notify companies of my address change
the website is called I am moving dot com.

Anyone had any experience of this? I have got loads of companies to notify and thought this might make it easier.

Doozergirl

I've not used it, but it's a well established site.

LandyAndy

I wonder if it is any easier than doing it yourself and being sure it has been done?

hcb42

I would just do it myself...standard letter, mail merge account/reference no, job done.

martindow

You still have to do the hard work of finding bills, etc and writing down addresses and account numbers. I'm not sure if a bank for instance would accept changes from this company as I imagine they would want a letter with your signature at the bottom.

Their list of people you might need to contact could be useful.

jjlandlord

It's not that difficult to handle...
1. Get mail re-direction from Royal Mail (6 or 12 months, you can extend)
2. Update your address for all major companies (e.g. banks, insurances, DVLA, etc. you can do it online with many of them)
3. Every time your receive a redirected letter you can update your address with the sender (or not if it's just spam)

LandyAndy

jjlandlord wrote: »

It's not that difficult to handle...
1. Get mail re-direction from Royal Mail (6 or 12 months, you can extend)
2. Update your address for all major companies (e.g. banks, insurances, DVLA, etc. you can do it online with many of them)
3. Every time your receive a redirected letter you can update your address with the sender (or not if it's just spam)

That is what I did Although I did extend the redirection to the maximum 2 years. There are some important things, dormant pensions for example, where you are only written to once a year and are easily overlooked (by me anyway:)).

LudaMusser

Royal Mail charge rougly £8 per month for the redirection. It is`nt 100 per cent either as we still get letters for the guy who we bought our house off, he moved 2 months ago. I got a key cut for £3 so I can still go back into the communal doorway of my previous building. I know it`s wrong but I don`t care

googler

Most of the work is in collating the list of who to notify, By the time you've done that, there's little left to do. The letters aren't the hard part.

Get Royal Mail re-direct for those you forget.

Lilibee

I've moved around a lot in the past few years, and have used iammoving.com twice in the last two. Found it very useful for 'not so important' things like nectar card, boots advantage card, mail order accounts, etc etc. It was a lot quicker for these sort of things (most of which can be done online) than going to each individual website, logging in, then finding the section for change of address and re-typing the address over and over again.

I didn't use it for anything that required a letter to be printed out, preferring in that case to ring the company direct. And I've always found the easiest thing when changing address for a bank account is just to go into the local branch and tell the person at the information counter, you show them some ID and it's done.

Always use in conjunction with a royal mail redirection though.

harasmc

Hi
Thanks for all your replies- I am setting up a redirection service as advised and I guess just need to sit down and make a list, that's the hard work really! LandyAndy, thanks for reminding me about pensions, that wasn't on my list.
Cheers guys, thanks for clarifying a few points.