Change Mailing Address

Changing Your Mailing Address with the Postal Service can be done quickly and easily by filling out a simple, one page form. www.ChangeMyAddress.info will submit the change to the Post Office on your behalf and will send you special offers for services for your new home such as telephone, cable, internet, etc. These offers can save you $100s of dollars per year. You will receive confirmation of the mailing address change by email and by regular mail at your old and new addresses.

When you change a mailing address with the US Postal Service, the post office stops delivering mail addressed in your name to your old address on the start date you enter on the form. If you checked "individual" on the form, the postal service will look at the first and last names and only stop mail for that individual. If you checked "family", any mail addressed with that last name will no longer be delivered beginning on the start date.

First Class Mail, Express Mail, and Priority Mail addressed in your name will then be rerouted to your new address for 1 year. Initially, it may take up to 7 to 10 business days for this mail to reach your new address. Periodicals (such as newspapers, journals, and magazines) will be forwarded for 60 days. Other classes of mail may be forwarded with special instructions from the mailer or if the postal service determines there is intrinsic value in them, such as some packages. For these types of mail, you may be asked to pay the postage to have them forwarded to your new address. However, you have the right to refuse any items that you don't want to pay postage for.

Any other standard mail (usually advertisements, coupons, catalogs, charity appeals, etc.) will not be forwarded and will be discarded by the Postal Service.

After 1 year, the Postal Service will return forwardable mail that is still being addressed to your old address to the sender. They will place a yellow sticker on the mail piece informing the sender of your new address. They will do this for 6 months.

At the end of this six month period your Change of Mailing Address order expires and is no longer kept on file. It is expected that all of your mailers would have your new address by this time. If mail is still being sent to your old address in your name, it may be delivered as addressed, or it may be returned to sender as "Unable to Forward".