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Moving home!

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So, I'm moving house soon, 200 miles away, to be nearer to family! :beer::j
I don't want to miss prizes by them being delivered to my old address and my new address is a second floor flat and I'm hoping to be working full time reasonably quickly too!
So, I was just wondering If I could get away with using my dad's address when entering competitions to save me missing prizes/parcels IF I win? :rotfl:

Ta!

Moving when the advents are on - I must be mad :eek::rotfl:
2013 - 86 | 2014 - 127 | 2015 - 39 | 2016 - 22 | 2017 - 10 | 2018 - 56 | 2019 - 16 | 2020 - 4 | 2021 - 5 | 2022 - 1 win

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  • Runnerduck
    Runnerduck Posts: 3,146 Forumite
    I won, I won, I won! I've been Money Tipped!
    i moved 6 days before christmas last year, once i was certain we were moving and contracts had been exchanged i started using the new address about 2 weeks before i moved, and a couple of prizes i had won i gave them my new address when they contacted me, i have also had my mail redirected for 12 months
  • I'm in the exact same situation and am currently using my mum's address for comps :) i will probably have post redirected as well when we do move out for 6 months or so just to be safe!
  • mjm3346
    mjm3346 Posts: 47,264 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    No harm in the post redirect but remember lots of physical goods come by courier so redirects don't touch them.
  • I haven't moved house for ages but last time I did as soon as I knew I was going I started to use my parents address for all comps. Still wonder if I missed any because the morning of the day I went an unexpected win arrived.
  • I am also in the same situation - moving near my family to a second floor flat with no trade button for anyone to gain access without a key in order to leave things outside my door - all the postboxes are on the outside of the building and very small! It's really annoying.

    Even worse, I have been trying to change my address with banks, shop loyalty cards etc and it comes up with the same number as me and the same street but won't include my block of flats name which is an entirely separate address. It is the same on a lot of the drop down forms on comps with 'search address' when I put my postcode and flat number in.

    It should say 7 XXXX Court,
    XXXX Street

    Instead it just says 7 XXXX Street which is someone elses address entirely so I will have to make friends with the person who lives there as I have a feeling they will be getting a lot of my post and possible prizes!
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