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Moving - Is postal redirection worth bothering with?
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If you do so I'd urge you to apply online using a bank card before you change your address with your bank. I didn't and I then found it impossible to show the right sort of proof of my old address. I just don't get letters from utilities, bank etc any more so in the end I couldn't apply for redirection at all.
It is crazy how many organisations will not take electronic bank/utility/credit card statements as proof of identification. How many of us honestly get these on a regular basis these days?0 -
Thanks for all of your replies.
The purpose of my post was the fact that I genuinely get extremely little actual 'post' which mainly consists of Sainbury/Tesco/Waitrose coupons. Therefore wondering if redirection is actually worth it if I know I have changed all of my main accounts and informed the utilities etc.
My mail consists of mainly circulars and, ironically, post from the previous occupant still - and they moved out 7 years ago! - which continues to go back in the post box marked 'return to sender'.0 -
solentsusie wrote: »Does the mail turn up because you haven't informed people? Or as you say it is from people who haven't written to you before which is something nobody can control I suppose whether redirection is set up or not. And I would certainly not contemplate redirection over more than a year.
Yes, it was mainly post from companies I had neglected to inform. For example, my old mobile phone company sent me random statements many months after the contract ended (as obviously I didn't update my address with a company I am no longer a customer with!), and a bank that I'd forgotten I had an old savings account with because it had lain empty for years and they hadn't written to me during that time.
I agree re the one year limit.0 -
I would do this for a year. As with Christmas, you may have family or friends that use their address book in their collection of Christmas cards which still contains your old address. Even though you informed them.
My parents moved in the summer a few years back and still had cards redirected.
Then there is always one organisation you forget. As soon as you receive a redirected bit of mail from them, you need to contact them either informing of your new address or tell them to stop sending catalogues etc.0 -
deannatrois wrote: »I moved out of a place four years ago, was only there 3 months, thought I had told all people who needed to know my new address. But I received a totally unexpected (and wrongful) bill for £496 from a previous council. I didn't hear about it for three years, and the appeal time was 13 months. So I had quite some argy bargy to get that bill removed.
I will now always pay for postal redirection.
Yes, I agree with this, and I said something similar earlier in the thread. You could get ANYthing sent to you that you don't know about/aren't expecting. Last time we moved, we got a notice (re-directed from the old house,) from the council; saying we owe £333 council tax (on the property we moved from) 3 months after we moved! It was an admin faux pas, and was very quickly sorted. But if we had not had mail redirection, we would not have known about it, and it would have been escalated, and would have ended up with us (possibly) getting a CCJ!Yes, always have your mail redirected. Not least because the new residents of your old address should not have to be bothered with your mail. The people who I bought this house from clearly did not have their mail redirected, or informed anyone they had moved, and instead left me with their forwarding address - presumably expecting me to be their postman.
EXACTLY!
Nothing more flippin' annoying than constantly getting mail for the previous occupant! Especially if they expect you to forward it on for them, or keep it for them!!! (I do acknowledge that this does not apply to the OP. )I used to work in Fraud, previous address fraud is common, usually due to somebody not redirecting their post or having an external mailbox so I'd be careful.
Also this. It would very easy for someone to fill in anything sent to you offering you a credit card/catalogue account/payday loan or similar, that already has your name printed on it. Far better that EVERYthing goes straight to you in your new home. For at least a year. Also, as I (and some other posters said,) occasionally, even if you have informed 'said company' of your new address, the occasional thing can get sent to your old address (like I said with my son's £450 deposit cheque from his university halls.)
Definitely worth getting it done. As many people have said (also,) there is bound to be old friends, acquaintances, and relatives that you have forgotten to give your new address to.You didn't, did you? :rotfl::rotfl:0 -
I would do it.
I moved a little over a year ago. I do most of my banking etc. online, and I wrote to everyone I could think of letting them have my new address. I also got my mail redirected for a year.
Despite having (as I thought) told everyone the new address, I still got some stuff - some companies had not updated their records, and having the redirect meant I realised this quickly and could tell them. I had one or two things from organisations I normally deal with online, and had overlooked when I was updating my details.
Having the redirection in place over christmas picked up on a couple of people who I had not told, or who had forgotten. Also, even online banks etc tend to still send some things by post - I've just had a letter from a bank about changes to charges on an online account I have with them, for example.
Also, it is courteous to the new occupiers, plus if they know you have made the effort to get stuff redirected they are much more likely to be willing to send on anything that does fall through the net.
The previous occupiers of my house didn't bother with anything. They wanted to call back regularly to pick up their post!! I told them that I wasn't comfortable with that, but that I would drop it off with their estate agents for the fist month so hey had time to sort something out. I have been in my new house for over a year now and still get 3-4 bits of post a week for them. I can't send it on as they didn't leave a forwarding address, but I would not be inclined to do so even if I had an address, as they've caused so much hassle.
It is a good thing I'm honest, as I'd have more than enough to steal any of their identies if I were that way inclined.All posts are my personal opinion, not formal advice Always get proper, professional advice (particularly about anything legal!)0
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