Life in Capital City

One of the many tasks when it comes to moving is taking care of the ol’ “change of address” stuff. In order to do that, Bell Canada has to be the the first to be notified.  After them, then all of the other utilities, companies, people who send useless mail, etc can be contacted and informed of the change in address.

So now that I know where I’ll be living and when I’ll be there, a call was placed to Ma Bell this morning and the ball started rolling.  Before you knew it, I had my 613 number. Again, to their credit, they made things very easy for me.

I can now move forward with other change of address calls and let everyone else know not only the new address, but also the new number.  The next calls will be to:

• Ottawa Hydro
• Enbridge (for the gas)
• Bell (again, but this time for the Internet)
• All credit cards
• Rogers Cable
• Newspaper and magazines (for subscriptions)
• Banks and Financial institutions
• Loyalty and reward programs
• Car dealership
• Insurance companies

Except this time, I’m going to play it smart.  When certain companies who I don’t want to be bothered by are informed of my new address, they will surely ask for my new phone number.  At which point I will simply say “Oh, I don’t have one yet.”  If they want to contact me that badly, they can bust out a pen and paper and write me a letter the way people used to do.

Thankfully the folks down at the Government of Ontario have made things easy for the little people by installing those Self Serve Kiosks everywhere.  It is there that I’ll be able to change my Health Card and my Ontario driver’s license.

And there still remains the issue of the cell phone. I will tackle that in the coming weeks.  Way I see it,  more than likely I’ll be getting an iPhone which we know is on the Rogers network.  So there’s no point in telling Bell to switch my current cell phone to a 613, likewise there’s no point in going to Rogers now and bringing my current 416 number over to their network for a month and a half.