There are a number of tasks that need to be accomplished when making a move. One of the most important is ensuring that your mail is delivered to your new address rather than where you formally resided. Dropping off a change of address form at the local post office is the easy part; making sure that all the folks you do business with (creditors, banks, clubs, organizations, magazines, mail-order houses, and maybe family and friends) can be more difficult. The ability to change your address with businesses using the Internet has made this task a little easier. However, there is still the concern that you will forget to give your new address to someone.
There are some that you intentionally forget. Organizations or businesses you do not want to hear from, and had never contacted in the first place.
Not long after I moved from Alaska to Missouri the first time, I started receiving newsletters and solicitations from my alma mater. How they knew where I was I have no idea; maybe they have students working full time Googling names of alumni.
Today I received my first piece of mail from them since moving back to Alaska. If the President had deputized the University of Alaska Anchorage Alumni Association into the War on Terror, Bin Laden would have been found long ago.
