Thurston County mail is now routed through Tacoma before returning to South Sound for delivery. We've been discussing the lead up to this fact off and on here on OlyBlog, Rick has a post of more information.

Okay. I put in a change of address form here in Olympia for Olympia early this month. I mistakenly did not sign my name properly on form (I printed but did not sign) and the card needed to be sent back to me as incomplete. I understand.

The post card is stamped Tacoma - Olympia WA 983 10 OCT 2006. It arrived today - October 27.

17 days to get this from Tacoma to Olympia?

USPS does have an official change of address form site on the web. It requires a $1 fee taken out of credit or debit card account to verify identity. Not really user friendly, though I do understand that some sort of system needs to be in place to prevent pranksters from randomly changing everyone's addresses around.

But I still cannot get over that 17 days lag time. I've signed the form and am sending it back to Tacoma, I've also done a change of address online. Word to the wise, if you are changing address, start early, and maybe offer to drive the form from Tacoma back to Oly yourself.