Moving At The Speed Of Cable

Over the past few days, I have been juggling my daily tasks along with a move across the state to the Vancouver, WA area. Everything considered, my wife and I feel the move went well. I’m still sore from moving furniture all over the place and getting things back to ‘normal’ has certainly been a challenge to say the least.

What I found most annoying however, is the amazing silly it is to get your mail when moving. Now you might think that it is no big deal. Just fill out the online form and you are good to go. Well, this is true unless you are waiting for a ‘re-keying’ of your mailbox that is. Yes, the house we moved to uses one of those ‘community’ mailbox things where a new key needs to be made which will run you about $25 and a three day wait. Not any three days, three working days…

Now so long as all of my mail is being kept in its place, anything that slips through is caught by mail forwarding and so on – this is fine. But in the year 2007, you might think there would be a more efficient means of getting this underway.

What have your experiences been with mail forwarding with the US Postal service and their online address change form? Total success? Hit the comments and tell about it.