I'm staying at my parents and it came up in conversation that their mail redirection (from the old family home where I used to live with them) has been going now for three years and they aren't going to renew it this time. Then my Dad told me I should tell people my new address. I was puzzled by this, and said that I had told everyone already.
Then my mum went rummaging in the cupboards and produced a final demand off a debt collection agency addressed to me and dated 1st Feb! It looks like it is an old mobile phone bill, although I thought I had paid all my debts (I got in a bit of trouble a few years back as everything in my life went wrong at once). I will ring the company first thing tomorrow and get to the bottom of it and hopefully arrange some kind of repayment system.
Apparently a few letters have arrived for me (last time I lived in that house was four houses ago, so I can be excused for thinking I had changed my address everywhere) but have been lost. I know if they didn't have the redirection, I wouldn't have got the letters at all, but AIBU to think that a casual "oh, a letter arrived for you today, do you want me to read it out to you?" at the end of one of our regular phonecalls would have been good?
The letter had clearly already been opened as well, which is also annoying. My mum did really help me with my previous financial troubles (not so much with money, but with emotional support and sorting stuff out as I was mentally ill) so I suppose she was just checking I hadn't slipped into my old habits, but, like I say, a phonecall could have sorted that out.
Meh. The bill is from a phone company I left in about 2005/6, I thought I was straight with them, now I have an unexpected £168 to find. Hopefully they will accept instalments. Tbh, they have to accept instalments, because I don't have that kind of money hanging about!