Moving: How to Keep Receiving Your Mail?
Moving means juggling a thousand things at once. Between packing boxes, cancelling contracts, handling paperwork, and finding a new home, it’s easy to overlook one crucial detail: your mail. To avoid missing important documents, it’s essential to plan ahead. Here’s how to ensure your mail gets forwarded to your new address.
Notify the relevant organizations
First and foremost, make sure to update your address with all organizations that may send you mail. Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list not to forget:
- Your CPAM and health insurance provider
- Your bank and insurance companies
- Your energy providers (electricity, gas, water)
- Your internet and mobile service providers
- The tax authorities (update your details via impots.gouv.fr)
- Schools if you have children
- Your press subscriptions, clubs, or other platforms
Good to know: most of these services now offer online platforms where you can update your address in just a few clicks.
Forwarding your mail with La Poste
To avoid oversights and give yourself time to complete your change of address, La Poste offers a permanent mail forwarding service, within France or internationally.
Learn more and subscribe online: here.
Permanent mail forwarding within France
This service allows your mail to be automatically forwarded to your new address in mainland France or the French overseas territories. It covers letters, registered mail, press, catalogs, advertisements, and Colissimo parcels.
2025 rates:
- 6 months: €49.90
- 12 months: €81.90
The 6-month contract can be renewed once. Multiple beneficiaries can be added at no extra cost. The indicative delivery time is 1 to 3 days.
Excludes: Chronopost, declared value items, unaddressed advertising, mail from other carriers, and items marked “do not forward”.
Permanent mail forwarding abroad
If you’re moving abroad, La Poste also offers an international mail forwarding service.
2025 rates:
- 6 months: €124.00
- 12 months: €212.00
This service includes correspondence up to 2 kg, newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and advertising mail. Parcels are not forwarded.
This contract is non-renewable. To extend the service, you’ll need to sign up again.
How to subscribe to the forwarding service
You can subscribe to La Poste’s permanent mail forwarding service:
- At your local post office
- Online on La Poste’s website: www.laposte.fr
You can subscribe up to 3 months before your move.
And after your mail? Don’t forget your housing
Moving soon and looking for a furnished apartment in your new city? Whether it’s for a few months or a fresh start, Lodgis is here to help with fully equipped rentals in France’s top cities.
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Want more tips on finding the perfect home? Read our guide.
