Vernal Express | 1980-05-01 | Page 29 | Address Change Shoud be Made before One Moves

Kb-": -- k: ' 5- - . r- . " i v 1 - . i i g s - . : 1 if s, : . -.-.v. ,. -. . . i !- ..... 1 i ' - ; . . ' t-- i ' . V"."--S. - O A TRASH FIRE behind the Last Chance Restaurant caused little damage and was out before firemen reached the scene, Tuesday. Tues-day. Sunday firemen responded to a grass fire in Jensen. Address change should be made before one moves If you're one of the estimated 36 million persons who plan to move their residence this year, you should begin notifying everyone who regularly sends you mail at least one full month before you move. That's the advice from Vernal Postmaster John Evan Jones who suggests you file change-of-address forms with your Post Office and send them to publishers and correspondents. The Postal Service offers free change-of-address kits to make it easier to notify everyone. Available in Post Offices and from letter carriers, kits include convenient postcards to alert the postmaster and for mailing to department stores, friends and relatives, utility companies, banks, newspaper and magazine publishers and others who do business with the family planning a move. "Too often people who are moving wait until the last minute to notify their correspondents," said the Postmaster. "The result is they add several days to their first-class mail delivery because it must be forwarded to the new address," ad-dress," he added. Those who fail to give publishers at least a month advance notice must either pay additional postage for forwarding for-warding or wait several weeks before the publisher changes the address. This means customers may miss some issues. "Customers should also remember to include their account number when notifying stores and banks and to send their old address labels to publishers," Mr. Jones advises. He also urged people moving to remember to include their new ZIP code.