Royal Mail redirection of post...

Kaykayday

Hi, so I'm moving out in a couple of weeks.
And I'm just looking into redirecting my post and it says it's You pay per surname .

So what happened to letters that are addressed to the parent or guardian of a child with a different surname ?
I get a lot of hospital letters from my children which are addressed this way do I pay for their surname as well or should they just deliver them to me thank you .

Tigsteroonie

I think you'd have to pay for their surname too - particularly as you cannot afford to miss hospital appointment letters. What about your children's birthday cards, you'd want them re-directed surely?

Kaykayday

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I think you'd have to pay for their surname too - particularly as you cannot afford to miss hospital appointment letters. What about your children's birthday cards, you'd want them re-directed surely?

You know I didn't even think of their cards etc.... To much to remember ... This moving house lark is very stressful. Thank you

G_M

Kaykayday wrote: »

...
And I'm just looking into redirecting my post and it says it's You pay per surname .
.... .

So if you use more than one surname (eg your maiden and maried names), or other people in the property have different surname(s), you'll need to apply for separate redirections for each.

LittleMax

I wouldn't get post redirected for children. Make sure you notify new address to GP and hospital, and for any savings accounts they may have. Presume all friends and relatives who may post cards will be told you are moving. Other than that what do they get?

anotheruser

Why people pay for redirection is beyond me.

Perhaps an excuse for laze? Or just in case you forget someone I suppose.

If you notify, even your current GP surgery, it'll be changed so any letters will go to the new address.
Change it a week, even a few days before completion if it seems likely to go ahead.

agrinnall

anotheruser wrote: »

Why people pay for redirection is beyond me.

Perhaps an excuse for laze? Or just in case you forget someone I suppose.

If you notify, even your current GP surgery, it'll be changed so any letters will go to the new address.
Change it a week, even a few days before completion if it seems likely to go ahead.

You don't have to be on here very long to see the consequences of failing to set up a redirection. It's a small price for peace of mind, and in my view anyone not doing it is either overly optimistic that they have notified every person and organisation that has their address and it has been updated in a timely manner by all of those, or they are foolish. I'll be kind and put you in the former category.

davidmcn

anotheruser wrote: »

Why people pay for redirection is beyond me.

Perhaps an excuse for laze? Or just in case you forget someone I suppose.

If you notify, even your current GP surgery, it'll be changed so any letters will go to the new address.
Change it a week, even a few days before completion if it seems likely to go ahead.

People often get short notice of if/when they are actually moving (you don't want to start sending mail to a house which you're not in yet), many senders have a long lead-in time before they actually amend outgoing mail, many senders don't pay attention the first time you tell them, you'll sometimes get mail from sources you don't expect (e.g. people who normally email you but suddenly decide to post something instead), etc etc. I've always told everyone immediately but there's always something been caught by redirection.

pinkteapot

Just remember that a redirection takes at least a week to set up. Royal Mail can't have it working in less than a week, so don't leave it till the day before you move to request it. Fill in the form as soon as you've exchanged contracts. You can specify a start-date for the redirection that's in the future (ie completion day), but if you set it up too close to the moving date your post will still arrive at the old address for a few days.

When we last moved, we also left a few A4 envelopes address to our new house, with large letter stamps on them, with a note asking our buyers if they'd mind putting any post that escaped the redirection in them and posting them to us (they did use them to send on some things we'd forgotten about).

Clutterfree

Sorry to thread hijack, but I'll be setting up a postal redirection for our family - we all have the same surname so no problem there.
BUT would it redirect my husbands business post?
Say his business is in the name of J Bloggs Electrical and we've set it up to redirect J Bloggs, would it redirect or would we have to do a separate business one please?

I am planning on advising everyone, but there will always be some that slip through the net.

Thanks.

TBagpuss

anotheruser wrote: »

Why people pay for redirection is beyond me.

Perhaps an excuse for laze? Or just in case you forget someone I suppose.

If you notify, even your current GP surgery, it'll be changed so any letters will go to the new address.
Change it a week, even a few days before completion if it seems likely to go ahead.

- Because even when you notify companies, they don't always update their records accurately.

- Becauce however well organised you are, it's always possible to miss telling one organisation, particuarlly if you dont get post from them on a regular basis.

- Because you don't know how helpful the new owner/resident will be in forwarding stuff.

- becuase friends and family sometimes use an out of date address book

- because it cuts down on the junk mail going to your old home, which in turn means that if the od item does slip through, the new owners are more likely to notice and forward it, rather than binning it becuase they are already getting stacks of crap in your name.


Last time I moved I had my post redirected for a year. And there were one or two things which came through toward the need of that time. One was from a company I had notified of the change, and who had ben sending me stuff to my new address. The thing which went to the old adress was a cheque for over £1,000 - appreantly as it was compensation for an error on their part, it appearss it came from a diferent department, and presumably they used the adress I had when the error was made. Since I didn't know I was due anything, I would not have noticed its non-arrival.

The other was a letter from an old friend who I'd lost touch with.