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cathnpaul	Jun 13 2007, 05:49 AM
Moderator - Croc. the yellow ribbon is for Maddy.x Posts: 464 Group: Members Member #21 Joined: October 29, 2006	I would like to share the last couple of weeks experience with you all. We fly out in 11days and started to ring around to get stuff shut down last week. We have hit barrier after barrier and am therefore thought sharing this with you all may make your lives a little easier. There are easy solutions I wish we had followed. Council Tax - wanted a forwarding address I couldnt/cant give them. They have stated that we must give them a permanent address before they can give us any monies back, which they have said they will pay into the bank account we shut down last month??? I offered them my new account details for the credit to be paid into for them to advise issuing a cheque!! I said we will be in Australia and have a 2month keepsake in place and wont be able to cash the cheque without a chunk of it being swallowed up. They stated - not their problem. No resolve. Solution - Make sure that your council tax is only paid up to the leaving date by contacting them a full month before. Sky - refusing to close the account down on June 22nd, but have said that it will finish on July 5th. We said but we are then paying for 2 weeks unnecessarily and wont be using the service. Thats unfortunate they have said!! again no resolve here. Solution - Make sure cancel the account a full month before. AOL - same as sky, but with a little bit more. I use my email address for international counselling reasons and my address book as approx >200 people in it including businesses, I therefore wanted to keep my email address open - but if we want to keep it open it will cost me £5.99per month. I have refused to do this and will take a couple of months to contact everyone. A big job for me as its all over my CV's too!! Solution - Make sure you cancel the account a full month before and that you have a back up free email account with maybe hotmail/yahoo?? Car Insurance - (both of us) - basically they will not accept it over the phone that we are cancelling our car insurance and have to put the cease date in writing. Just another pain in the backside. Solution - nothing could do about this. Life Insurance - same as car Buildings and contents - will not refund monies into any other account other than the one we closed down. Having to pay a full year for the sake of 2 days via a debit card and they will refund 363days worth back on my debit card on day 3???? Car Breakdown - dead easy, just cancelled it. Amenities - easy as anything as expected. Tax Office - we have filled in the form for us to claim this years tax back, but they cant send that too us either until we have an ozzy address and they will send us a cheque!!!! I give up with that one. A loan - took a 3 month holiday break to give us a bit of breathing space. Easily done. -------------------------------------------- Its been unnecessary stress we dont need. All the above on top of our house sale which is on track for completion 2days before we fly, good timing thankfully. Then moving in with sister for 2 nights. Suitcases, make sure you have enough - we have found that we have had to buy another lot of cases and are now up to 7cases plus hand luggage. --------------------------------------------- Todays calls are to Manchester Airport regarding hand luggage size as on the website it says a particular size, but on the singapore airlines info they sent me, the hand luggage size is twice the size. Therefore, which do we take notice of???? we shall wait and see. The goodbyes are now coming up thick and fast. Today should be our first chill out day as we have packed and got everything in place now (fingers crossed). anyway, just thought would share our experiences with you.
	LATE JUNE 2007, IS THE START OF <span style='font-family:Arial'>A NEW LIFE DOWN UNDER</span>

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