When you know that you are going to make a move it is imperative that two months before you actually make the move you go ahead and inform all the important contacts in your address book about the move. Do not wait for this to happen right at the end. A good idea is to start by saving envelops and mailing labels that arrive. Either store them in a box marked change of address or file them. Then you can notify all of those people in one go about your change of address.
Look carefully at the utility and non-utility list. All the bills that you receive are your important points of contact. The bills will contain the way to go about changing your address. Also, they sometimes have free return envelopes that you can fill in for notification of change of address. This will make sure that you have let all the important people such as the banker, doctor, lawyer, utility guys know about your new address.
The next step is for you to file your USPS change of address with the postal department. This is extremely helpful to get your mail forwarded to you from your old address and also there are several companies who subscribe to the National Change of Address service which is also known as the NCOA. The postal department will notify them about your change of address automatically.
When you file the USPS change of address you can file it either in the permanent or temporary category. The permanent ones are available to all the subscribers of the National Change of Address service whereas if you file it under the temporary category it is not so. This allows you to be able to control the privacy of your address and makes you decide how many people you want to know of your new address. This will help in greatly cutting down your junk mail. You will be surprised and amazed at the amount of time that you can save when you don’t have a whole lot of junk mail hitting your doorstep all the time. You can take the advantage of filing an online form or by going to the post office. The charge for the USPS change of address is a meager $1 to avoid fraud. The form is easy to fill and captures all the essential data for the change of address.