Postal Letter

US Postal Service: Is my Mail Forwarding OK? - two addresses forwarded from...?

I just moved to where I live. I at first thought I was going to live on one side of town, 4xxx2. It turned out not to have happened. I put the Mail Forwarding request in to this address from my old address in NY like 3 days before. After that, I found a location on the othe rside of town, 4xxx3. That also turned out to be a not-real situation. I filled out mail forwarding requests not only from NY address, but from the 4xxx2 address as well. The final chapter is I now officially live in 4xxx2, at a different location. No question about it this time. I re-submitted my Mail Forwarding requests, all at different branches, from the old 4xxx2 address and the 4xxx3 address to my new official address in 4xxx2. The Forwarding from the NY address still gets it to the original 4xxx2. I am expecting my last check in the Mail. It was placed in the mail in NY on Friday. I submitted my final round of forwarding requests to my new official address from the two new previous new addresses (after NY) yesterday. Should I be OK with the letter getting to my new address? If my mail gets sent from NY, will the 2 previous addresses I left in the new State catch up with my Final Address, once the forwarding goes through?

Public Comments

1. If the carriers there are doing their jobs, you might get your mail forwarded from all your previous addresses. But to be on the safe side, I'd send a new change of address to all of your previous addresses. There is a specific form to correct your previous addresses to your new one, but those are internal forms. If you send out the change of addresses to your old PO's, you should start getting your mail in about a weeks time.