The address you no longer live at can keep receiving parts of your former life.

Moving out ends your presence somewhere and not your paper trail. Letters keep arriving for months or years, addressed to a version of you that lived there: the bank, the dentist, a magazine you forgot, a friend who has not been told. Someone else now handles the small residue of a life you have already left.

If you have moved recently, spend twenty minutes updating the three or four places that actually matter and forward the rest. And if post arrives for a previous occupant, write not here and put it back in the box. It costs nothing and it closes something for a stranger.