Rant #3,271: Changes

Our new residence is about 30 yards away from Nassau County, the county I live in since moving to Long Island more than 50 years ago, but it is now so close, yet so far ... we now live in Suffolk County.

Since we changed our address, we have to let everyone know--everything from magazine subscriptions to Social Security--thst we have moved.

But since we moved out of one county to another, there is another layer to this that we have had to attempt to navigate, and that is thst we are now Suffolk County residents.

I called up the Board of Elections earlier this week. I explained my situation, and they sent over a form that is so involved that you would swear that I never voted before.

Yesterday, I tried to change my residence online at the Department of Motor Vehicles website, but I had numerous problems.

First, the site simply would not accept my information--data right off of my driver's license--and then, it accepted it, but in order to make any address changes, you have to set up a My DMV account ...

But since the site said I could only do this with a link they would send me in my email, I couldn't do it because ...

Well, as of this writing, I haven't been sent any link.in my email--

And I know that something is awry with the site, because I actually used two different email addresses in separate attempts, and I haven't gotten anything, in either email, from them.

I was able to get the actual.paper form for change of residence from their.website. But again, it is as if I have not yet spent a day on this planet, as it is very involved and some of the directions are not understandable.

Looking back several weeks, my wife and I had no trouble at all changing our Social Security material, but we had trouble changing our son's information, because the site would not accept the fact that we moved into the new place in November ...

And since thst was the then current month, it read that we hadn't moved in yet, and we had to make the changes in December.

And don't tell me to call and speak to someone person to.person--

That is as fruitless an exercise thst exists today.

The Internet is wonderful when it works. But when it doesnt--and seemingly puts you through the ringer because you had the audacity to not only move, but move out of the county you were in.

And talking about the post office, we did apply to have our  mail forwarded to us, but they only do it for six months, and if you want more, you have to pay for it.

And I am P.O.'d at the P.O., because they miss plenty of dtuff.

And then you have other concerns that completely ignore what you have alerted them to, and either continue to send your mail.to the old address or have the wrong information about where you now live--

Like what is happening with my monthly car bill, which I have called up on several times. And so far to no avail.

You can't win for losing when you move, and hopefully, everything will get straightened out soon.

Would you bet on this being rectified first or me regaining my mobility first?

If I were a betting man, I would say the latter would happen first--

But in this crazy world we live in, who really knows?

I dont even think Kreskin could figure.this all out.