UK address for mail and credit cards if you are moving abroad

[Lockhouse]

Try Mailboxesetc

I had one of them in the past. The do forwarding abroad.

WHS - Also with mailboxes etc, you can have any number of aliases, so company and personal mail can all go to the same address. They also accept parcel delivery and hold them for you. The only caveat is that Royal Mail will not redirect from a Mailboxes etc mailbox address when you move (not a lot of people know that) so you have to make sure that once you leave Mailboxes all your addresses have been correctly changed.

[expat]

Some banks - e.g. First Direct - will allow you to retain your account after you've moved overseas.

I have a UK bank account with them, and a UK credit card.

I never had any problem giving a foreign address, even in previous years when they would not let you open an account without a UK address: if you already had the account you were always OK. Now, banks are supposed to open an account for any EU citizen, but often they still won't without a UK address, so keep the accounts that you already have.

BTW DVLA does (or at least did) require "an address in the UK where you can always be contacted".

[milanbenes]

'I looked the Royal mail one up. Apparently the royal mail only does the post redirection service for up to a max. of 2 years and of course they don't do signed for items or special delivery items (i.e. send them abroad to your new address).

Don't like the 2 year limit.'



no wonder they're always making a loss if they don't have the commercial sense to see opportunities for business

I wonder what cretin made the 2 year rule and no signed for items

dipsticks deserve to go bust



Milan.

[NotAllThere]

Some banks - e.g. First Direct - will allow you to retain your account after you've moved overseas.

I have a UK bank account with them, and a UK credit card.

[eliquant]

the royal mail do a redirect from your last address for a yearly fee

don't know how the price compares to that mailboxes one though

I looked the Royal mail one up. Apparently the royal mail only does the post redirection service for up to a max. of 2 years and of course they don't do signed for items or special delivery items (i.e. send them abroad to your new address).

Don't like the 2 year limit.

[jmo21]

the royal mail do a redirect from your last address for a yearly fee

don't know how the price compares to that mailboxes one though

[HairyArsedBloke]

Sounds good, thanks for the info.

Say, Hairy a*sed bloke do I know you ? did you work for an IT media company in Soho back in the mid 1990s ??

Nope, I'm a ([n] ex-) City boy.

[eliquant]

Your (mailbox) address will look like:

Flat 123,
69 Rue de remark
Mytown
Andywshire
A1 9AB

Make the change on-line and they wont care.

Sounds good, thanks for the info.

Say, Hairy a*sed bloke do I know you ? did you work for an IT media company in Soho back in the mid 1990s ??

[HairyArsedBloke]

Your (mailbox) address will look like:

Flat 123,
69 Rue de remark
Mytown
Andywshire
A1 9AB

Make the change on-line and they wont care.

[eliquant]

Try Mailboxesetc

I had one of them in the past. The do forwarding abroad.

But will your UK credit card company / bank send mail to this address even if you request them to do so ? I mean will they refuse point blank ?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Try Mailboxesetc

I had one of them in the past. The do forwarding abroad.

[eliquant]

In the near future I am thinking of selling up in Britain but would like to keep a postal address here in the UK so that any postal correspondance with things such as bank current accounts / credit card companies is maintained.

Now I could use my the address of my two remaining British members of my family (I also have an uncle but he is unreliable), HOWEVER, the thought suddenly occured to me if those two members of my family were to die and their homes sold off how could I obtain a postal address in the UK mainland which would be acceptable to UK banks and credit card companies (for my existing accounts/cards in the UK) ??

I don't fancy renting a shoe box in Peckham and have mail piled up there, is there no service in the UK which in a way poses as a postal address and then forwards any mail received in the UK to your real address in mainland Europe ? (of course they will charge for this). Is this even legal to do ??