Methods for facilitating contact information changes

A method of facilitating the maintenance of an address list of each of a plurality of mailers in response to a change of address request being provided by a mover that specifies new contact information for said mover, comprising:

• maintaining master address information based on current address list information received from each of said mailers;
• processing said mover against said master address information to generate a list of one or more particular ones of said mailers that have the mover listed on their current address list, said list of one or more particular ones of said mailers being provided electronically to said mover;
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• in response to receiving a change of address notification authorization from the mover identifying a selected one or more of said one or more particular ones of said mailers included in the list of one or more particular ones of said mailers provided to the mover, notifying each of the selected one or more of said one or more particular ones of said mailers of the new contact information of the mover.

In conjunction with an electronic bill payment system through which a party makes payments to one or more payees, a method of assisting said party to notify a selected one or more of said payees of one or more changes in contact related information for said party, comprising:

• receiving a request from said party to assist with a contact information change;
• in response to receiving said request, providing a list of said payees to said party;
• receiving a notification authorization from the party identifying said selected one or more of said payees;
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• providing to each of said selected one or more of said payees changed contact information for the party.