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« on: March 25, 2016, 09:32:59 AM »
I moved about 5 miles away to a new house. Same City, Same Zip.
I changed my address with credit cards, driver's license, auto registration, magazines, FAA, health insurance . . .
It was that last one that pissed me off. It wasn't my insurance company, but they said I also had to change my address with the Market Place.
I always hate using that web site so I decided to call them I was on hold for around 4 minutes, and the entire call took around 18 minutes (the iphone reports total time). Just to change my address they had to ask a million questions, including whether I was currently incarcerated, of any anyone in my family was incarcerated. I had to listen to several very long disclaimers about how it is a Federal crime to use the system fraudulently and I had to agree each time. They had to verify that my name is the same as on my SS card (which I haven't seen in 30 years). The questions just went on and on.
We paid some telephone operator a quarter of an hour pay to change one address. That might only be a few bucks, but how many times a day does that get repeated. And why do they need to know if I am in jail in order to change my address?