Royal Mail Redirection Service

[smurfchops]

Has anyone used this recently when moving home,how reliable is it?

[Hopkirk]

It's very good but not cheap.

What is more expensive is to book it for a short period and then decide to extend it when it is about to run out.

[newmodarmy]

It didn't work at all for us when we moved at short notice. We paid for 3 or maybe it was 6 months at the Post Office counter as we needed to show various ID/addrss proofs and  they took our card payment immediately; but the instruction apparently never reached Royal Mail so we got no redirected mail whatsover.  When we realised something must have gone wrong, neither accepted responsibility: both blamed the other.  We got the money back eventually, but never got  our missing post.

[newmodarmy]

You can notify most companies of a change of address now online but some will also write to your old address as a security measure just to check, so without the redirection facility there can be an impasse unless you tell them a few weeks before the move

[Maydup]

It worked perfectly when I used it but that was 30years ago. No recent experience.

[Hymie]

Personally I’d recommend you re-direct your mail for at least a year, I’m still getting mail (although mostly junk-mail) for the previous owners of my property, having moved in over 8 years ago.

[Redhelen72]

We did it 2 years ago, organised online for 6 months and was brilliant