Jennifer, do not assume your mail will be forwarded, they forward very little nowadays and most ends up in never never land. My last two moves have been awful mail wise. Anything that comes with a preprinted barcode on it will NOT be forwarded, most everything else gets lost. Sorry but another thing you just have to work extra hard on yourself. If you have a good neighbor you can trust to watch the mail and help it is a good idea. We have a rental on the back of our property and the mail service has been very bad about forwarding past tenants mail when they moved. I did most of it, even calling the tenant when I thought something important showed up here. We were good friends and she came back frequently to pick up mail and I just forwarded lots to her also. They also will not forward magazines, bulletins, etc. Good luck, hope it goes as smoothly as possible. Carolyn in Los Gatos