Moving home

beedmcfc

Hi,


I'm due to move house a week on Friday, is there a way I can change address to all my suppliers en mass without having to contact them individually?


TIA

Browntoa

nope , need to do them all individually


they want to (hard sell) talk to you about new contracts and tariffs

beedmcfc

Browntoa wrote: »

nope , need to do them all individually


they want to (hard sell) talk to you about new contracts and tariffs

!!!!.....that's not what I wanted to hear

G_M

Yes - just put you new address on your facebook page and then sit back. Make sure you add your bank account details, National Insurance number, and (to be sure) your mother's maiden name too.

gingercordial

beedmcfc wrote: »

Hi,


I'm due to move house a week on Friday, is there a way I can change address to all my suppliers en mass without having to contact them individually?


TIA

Suppliers of what?

If you mean utilities, you're going to have to contact them anyway with closing and opening meter readings. You can probably do this online and make sure you use something like the MSE Cheap Energy Club to get a good deal and a cashback bonus for switching, so consider this an opportunity.

Banks are quite rightly not going to accept instructions from anyone who can't prove they are you, otherwise anyone could pretend to change your address to divert your post and get hold of new bank cards.

That said I believe there is at least one service that does this kind of thing because our letting agent would have referred us to them if we wanted (presumably for a kick-back) but as I understand it you still have to print off letters to sign and send them to banks so not really worth it in my opinion.

googler

Nobody knows how many 'suppliers' you have personally, nor who they are, so - yes, you have to take control of this yourself.

The agencies that promise to do this for you will only do this for the 'suppliers' they are affiliated with, which will only cover a small fraction of what you need.

Here's a list of who you need to tell that you're moving -

Accountant
Banks (High Street and Online)
Book or Music Club Subscriptions
Broadband Supplier
Building Society
Burglar Alarm Servicing or Monitoring
Car Insurer, Car Clubs (AA, RAC etc)
Catalogues/Freebies
Charities - for catalogues, as well as registered donor/member
Church/Religious Organisation
Cleaners, Ironing Service, etc.
Clubs – Rotary, Community, Sports, WWF, RSPB, etc.
Council (both old & new) - Council Tax Department
Council – cancel any Parking Permits
Credit Card(s) Provider
Dentist
Doctor
Dog Walking Service
DSS (or whatever they're called these days)
DVLA
Electricity, Gas & other Utility Suppliers
e-mail provider(s)
Employer(s)
Family & Friends
Gardener
Hire Purchase/Loan Companies
Hospital, if you attend regularly
Household Insurance Supplier – Building and Contents
Home Phone/Landline Supplier
Inland Revenue, or HMRC
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Investments (Funds, etc.) - Administrator/Registrar
Library
Life Assurance Supplier
Loan or Credit Companies
Magazine Subscriptions
Medical insurance (BUPA or similar)
Memberships - maybe included in Clubs above
Milkman – cancel deliveries
Mobile Phone Supplier
Neighbours
Newsagent – cancel paper deliveries
NS&I - Premium Bonds
Online Retailers (Amazon, eBay, Paypal, Play, etc)
Optician, Hairdresser, other Beauty/Health professionals
Pawnbroker - if you plan to later re-purchase anything you've pawned
Pension Providers
Pet Sitters
Royal Mail – set up your re-direction service for 3/6/12 mths
Satellite or Cable TV Supplier
Servicing Contractors (Boiler, CH, other appliances)
Schools & Nurseries, Childminders, Babysitters
Shareholdings - Registrars (direct and online)
Stores or Chains with discount or club cards
Survey/Market Research websites
TV Licencing Office
Vet, Kennels, Cattery, Microchip Registrations
Window Cleaner

TBagpuss

If you set up redirection on your post with Royal MAil then you buy yourself a bit more time to get around to notifying eveyone and also reduce the risk of any slipping though the net.

As gingercordial says, forhousehold ulitities etc you need to inform them in any case to close your current account and open a new one. With bansk and so on it's importnat that youir details are up to date but reidirecting the post for (say) 6 months gives you more time and reduces the risk of missing any.

Also, if you get yor post redirected but leave a forawrding address with the new occupants of the current house, they are more likely to feel willing to forward on to you anything which does slip through, whereas if you don't and they are swamped with stff thye are more likely to just bin or return it all.

agrinnall

If you use RM redirection they used to also advise some businesses of your change of address, although I can't see any mention of that on their website so perhaps they have stopped. The problem I had with it was not being sure who they would tell, so I told everyone anyway (and even using a list like googler's I discovered a couple that I had missed almost a year after moving).

hazyjo

Great list, ta googler. Will save it.


You might want to add:


Pet insurance
Website provider


(Couldn't see them, but ignore me if there already.)


I also have power of attorney for my mum with my sister - presume her solicitor will have my address for that too which will need updating.


Jx

Sandhy

Don't forget to update electoral roll too

Almost all of these things (including electoral roll) can be done online these days

Just grab a cuppa and work though the list...

beedmcfc

THanks for the advice people, very much appreciated. :T


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