Redirecting Your Mail

Well, fancy that! There’s a category about redirecting your mail! As you know I am having first hand experience of changing my address at the moment so who would be better qualified than me to tell you about the service? I have moved house a couple of times before, both many years ago, and had the mail redirected with a minimum of fuss and little in the way of checks on identity so I was quite unprepared for the efficiency of the new system, but quite impressed nonetheless. We heard on Tuesday 2nd July that we could definitely move on Tuesday 9th July and, since it says on the form from the ... more

Moving house, the list of people you have to tell is endless, no matter how thorough you try to be, there will always be someone who slips through the net - and to the rescue comes your knight in shining armour, the Royal Mail. WHAT IS IT? For those of you who don't know - it is a service provided by the Royal Mail for people who have moved on, both in the UK and Overseas. All mail, first and second class is forwarded to your new address for the allotted time - for a small fee of course - please bear in mind that all the prices listed below are PER SURNAME in the household NOT the address: UK ... more

Right then, everything has been done. As the song goes:”My bags are packed, I’m ready to go…”Gas and electricity meters have been read, every room checked and cupboards too. Sorted out your new doctor and dentist. New school organised. New address left with the neighbours…Cat settled in the car with the kids. You’ve forgotten nothing! Mail? You know…the post..? Have you remembered to redirect it to your new address? Whoops… Mail redirection is probably the last thing you will think about when moving home. But, imagine if you win the Premium Bonds ... more

The date of our house move came as a bit of a surprise, one day it was off, the next it was on, until at last we found out we were moving in 3 days time! Needless to say everything was up in the air including any thought as to redirecting our mail. We had one day basically to sort out the redirection service, and to be fair to Royal Mail they did the best they could, and the service was up and running within 4 or 5 days. We were even advised by the counter staff where we set up the redirection service that if we contact the redirection service helpline they may be able to put a stop on all of ... more

Having just moved house I thought I would comment on this service. I have used it three times now in the past two years. I just cannot stay put can I. Well, hopefully not moving again now for a while. It is too stressful. Royal Mail offers a re-direction service and this means the mail you receive at your old address will automatically get sent to your new address providing the service has started. There are some clauses in that they are not able to re-direct business mail or recorded/special delivery packets. This is for security purposes and is Royal Mails policy. As with all services they ... more