I have a sheet of A4 with actions I need to take on moving house. Each organisation has their own way of dealing with change of contact details. If you are techie & lucky you can do it on line. Doing it on the phone is often safer because you are talking to a human being who actually understands what needs to be done. The ones I have spoken too - eventually - have been really helpful.
The worst organisations are the insurers. Hours wasted coping with menus & selecting from up to 6 options. Holding on. Dreadful music. Repeating information because the people who answer the phone & the underwriters don't have the same information on their system.The most helpful have been Thames Water & Octopus Energy. British Gas & SSE are uncontactable on the phone. Either too many phone calls or too few people, or both.
Many organisations don't have the facility to notify a move in advance, banks for example. So you have to wait until you have actually moved & then change your details. As if you haven't got enough to do unpacking & settling in!
I am so fed up with it. In this technological age you would think that it would be possible to have some centralised website with a list of all the people anyone needs to notify. You then tick as appropriate, inpout your old details & the new ones, then everyone gets the information.
Well there is - sort of. But I've only just discovered it.
www.iammoving.com
It takes a while to get the hang of it & in my case because I am selling, buying & renting it's a lot more complicated. It isn't possible to do it for some organisations. I only ended up with 9. But it shows it can be done. There just need to be more options.
Moving is getting closer & I've hardly started the packing!
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