As much as I’d like to have this be a project that I do, if someone has already done it or sees this post and runs wild, so be it - I’d rather that the service exists.

What I really want is a website or service that can change my address with all of my other services. The problem is that, if this is a website, this service would have to know my login information for all of these things, which is not so good. The other way to do it is to create a client application. A third, and I believe better, alternative is the model Flickr uses for their API: you don’t give the other services your login info, but they request permission to do something, which you can then grant. They are then authorized to do just that thing. In this case it’d be to update your address information. I recently made a list of the places I’d have to change my address when the time comes to move again:

  • usps.gov
  • cingular.com
  • wellsfargo.com
  • americanexpress.com
  • amazon.com
  • paypal.com
  • providian.com
  • ingdirect.com
  • lendmonkey.com

There may be more, but I can tell you that this list has expanded since my last move, and is likely to expand even more as time goes on. If each one took me an average of 10 minutes to do it’d take me an hour and a half to complete. That’s not much fun. Where would you have to change your address? I’ve filed this project under someday/maybe, so if you post it here it’s got a better chance of actually happening someday.