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>>thunde+(OP)
Japan is insane on the paperwork front. The amount of stuff my wife has to deal with (because my Japanese is frankly terrible) for basic processes is mind numbing. Things like having to write out your address and contact info on five different forms for one appointment, visiting multiple offices to submit paperwork in for the same process, etc.. Moving apartments (heaven forbid it is to a different city government) involves weeks of straight up administrative work from one person in the household.

>>Tagano+b6
I hadn't even thought moving would take multiple pieces of paper ...

In the US it's just https://moversguide.usps.com/mgo/disclaimer?referral=UMOVE

And this isn't even "required".

>>duxup+Db
This looks like a snail mail forwarding service? Surely that's not mandatory to move somewhere else? I've never used this in Europe (moved 5 times), just tell the places that need to send me physical mail my new address

>>Aachen+Zc
You can't use 'just' when the thing you're suggesting is more work.

>>devnul+Ye
But works. The post already doesn't sort a decent percentage of stuff correctly as it is, I'd never trust it to correctly identify which mail needs to go to me when some senders may put the first name, others the last name, others my name, others my partner's name, others including the cat's name as a joke, and others not including a name at all. The sender also needs to send something in the right timespan (before you stop ordering the service) in order to get your new address. This is also assuming nobody in your household shares a first or last name with the new inhabitants

Compared to what seems like a big mess of telling only the post and hoping everyone will get the memo from them, telling the utility, my employer, family, and a few insurances that I moved (updating the info on the self-service site or sending support an email) seems like the better solution to me