Web Site Makes Moving Easy

By Associated Press

September 26, 2001, 4:29 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- The Postal Service launched a free service Wednesday designed to make things a little easier for the millions of people who move each year.

The new Internet site, MoversGuide.com, allows customers to change their address with the post office, sign up for new phone and utility services, rent moving trucks, buy moving supplies, subscribe to a newspaper in the new town and make various other needed changes.

The site was developed by Imagitas of Waltham, Mass., and is supported by advertising. The service is available 24 hours a day, every day.

While there is no charge for the service, customers will have to provide a credit card number linked to their home address as a security measure to prevent people from making address changes for someone else.

Once they have registered the credit card, the customer will be mailed a code number they can use to verify the changes they want made. Only at that point will the address shift and utility hookups and other changes take effect.

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On the Net:

MoversGuide: http://www.moversguide.com

U.S. Postal Service: http://www.usps.com Copyright © 2001, The Associated Press

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