We moved into this apartment about six weeks ago, and filed changes of address with the post office, credit card companies, etc.
For the first couple of weeks we were getting some mail, including my new state ID card and , oddly, "we got a request to change your address" notes from our banks and credit card companies, forwarded from the old address. Then it stopped. It took us a little while to notice the problem, because I wouldn't necessarily expect requests for donations to be forwarded: but there's been nothing in that box for two or three weeks, including the weekly magazine we subscribe to.
Last week, I checked with the landlady at our previous apartment; all they've gotten for us is a few catalogs. I called the post office this morning (yesterday was a holiday). It took a little while to get through to the right person, including busy signals in the morning and a long hold time after lunch, but when I did get to the "delivery supervisor for Somerville" she was friendly and helpful.
She asked whether our names were on the mailbox, and whether our apartment number was on the mail. Then she asked me for our names, and asked me to hold. The current state of affairs is that she was going to leave a note for our letter carrier, and I could call back tomorrow morning and see where things stood. (One weird thing, which I didn't think to mention, is that it took us a while to put the nametag on our mailbox, and we were getting mail without that when we first moved in.)
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redbird, I called one of my credit card companies over the weekend and checked that nobody had filed a change of address on the card. Whatever else is going on, they still have me at the address I gave them in the middle of August.
For the first couple of weeks we were getting some mail, including my new state ID card and , oddly, "we got a request to change your address" notes from our banks and credit card companies, forwarded from the old address. Then it stopped. It took us a little while to notice the problem, because I wouldn't necessarily expect requests for donations to be forwarded: but there's been nothing in that box for two or three weeks, including the weekly magazine we subscribe to.
Last week, I checked with the landlady at our previous apartment; all they've gotten for us is a few catalogs. I called the post office this morning (yesterday was a holiday). It took a little while to get through to the right person, including busy signals in the morning and a long hold time after lunch, but when I did get to the "delivery supervisor for Somerville" she was friendly and helpful.
She asked whether our names were on the mailbox, and whether our apartment number was on the mail. Then she asked me for our names, and asked me to hold. The current state of affairs is that she was going to leave a note for our letter carrier, and I could call back tomorrow morning and see where things stood. (One weird thing, which I didn't think to mention, is that it took us a while to put the nametag on our mailbox, and we were getting mail without that when we first moved in.)
Being a cautious
redbird, I called one of my credit card companies over the weekend and checked that nobody had filed a change of address on the card. Whatever else is going on, they still have me at the address I gave them in the middle of August.Tags: