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Check with your utilities, there's often an opt-out option for the information sales. I've always moved myself, but I'd just find a locally owned moving company willing to deal in cash. It's good advice for most stuff. avoid online forms, and there are a lot of instances where you can just use false info. The only reason to change your address with the PO is forwarding. if you're worried about missing mail, you should change it. Then go to the DMA Choice site and opt out with your new information. Update your actual business info with each company. I use an app called PaperKarma to aromatically opt me out of junk mail that comes through. they do a reasonably good job, but they're a subscription service, so I save up the junk, pay on sub cycle, process the opt outs and then cancel. I forgot to mention, I also pay for a masking service for masked emails and phone numbers. The free burner options tend to be blocked these days. What this takes is just diligence and patience. There's also some misinformation in this thread: > Banks, utilities, even government and health agencies sell your personal data without your knowledge and to any single one of them your home address isn't necessarily "protected or sensitive" information. Partially false. These industries, *especially* government and healthcare are regulated and can only sell a certain subset of your data, mostly anonymized, if at all. I work in the government IT sector, and PII is *serious*, even under the current trump nightmare.