What should you do after moving into a new house
What you should do after moving into your shiny newly built house in New Zealand? Get it connected!
Post office
The new address usually is not added into post office’s internal address book immediately, which will cause inconveniences to us. For example, letters can not be sent to our new address simply because there’s no such on in the system! Also we won’t be able to receive credit card statements, utility bills etc.. What’s worse, a lot of third parties rely on post office’s system, so they won’t be able to provide service! For example, if you want to order a household garbage bin from companies like Waste Management, they won’t serve you until the address is added.
Usually it takes several weeks for the post office to recongnize your new address, what we can do here it to report the address to speed up the process. They will send a postman to investigate to see if such an address exists or not, then update their address book accordingly.
How to do that? First go to the website to check your address status: address-postcode-finder, usually it’s searchable but shown as No Postal Delivery in red color. You can submit an enquiry form here Suggest an address. There’s also a help page Address and Postcode Finder shows as “No Postal Delivery”
Please note that it can take up to 4-6 weeks for your address to show in our address and postcode finder as a valid delivery address as nzpost needs confirmation from the council and also emergency services that your address is valid.
Google map
Everyone is relying on Google map navigation, guess what would happen if that goes wrong. Your friend might go to the wrong place or at least being late for the party; the new appliances we ordered might be delivered to the wrong recepient! I have a friend whose house has been there for 3 years, but the address is still marked at a wrong place!
Can we do something about it? Abosolutely! Go to Google Maps and search for your address, open the side menu and hit Send Feedback
Then select Wrong information and drag the location mark to the correct place. In my case, 1-2 weeks later it’s updated.
