In message 4f465398.188383281@localhost, at 15:04:50 on Thu, 23 Feb
2012, Cynic remarked:

Mail redirect only operates for a couple of months or so,

You can start off with a year, and extend it for a second year. Once
upon a time you extend it further, but they don't allow that any more.

so you still
have to actually inform all those people of your change of address.
Seeing that you have to inform them anyway, it is just as much effort
to inform them *before* you move as afterwards.

I think you might be saying "why don't you inform them before you move".
That's easy - yes you can tell the more prolific ones but they won't
necessarily action it immediately. And then others crawl out of the
woodwork.

I've substituted email for snailmail whenever possible, and find it a
heck of a lot better.

I've swung the other way. Too many online accounts are very difficult to
manage, and far too often they delete old statements too quickly.

--
Roland Perry