So back when we had our little session with Mattamy they gave us our new address but no postal code. Apparently it hadn’t been decided yet by the town of Oakville and we were told to check back with Canada Post. Well I have been checking every couple of days and still no postal code. I have been able to set up phone, cable, hydro and gas without it (I promised to call them back with it asap).
The final step in getting our mortgage is getting house insurance set up. Did you know you can’t get insurance without a postal code? Yep, non negotiable. No postal code - no insurance. No insurance - no mortgage. No mortgage - well hopefully it won’t come to that. I spent two hours on the phone today trying to get it sorted out…and we still don’t have a postal code. Canada Post is blaming the town of Oakville. The builder is blaming Canada Post. The customer service rep from the builder and the Insurance company rep have never heard of this happening before. When I asked what would happen if come next week (we close on Wednesday) we still didn’t have a postal code, I got a very unencouraging “um…I’m not sure”. Apparently I am not the first to complain but unfortunately we are the first people moving in so it affects us the most. I have faith that we will get a postal code but what a fiasco. I can’t call anyone to change our address because an address without a postal code isn’t an address to most places that want to mail you bills. On a positive note this clears up some time so I can pack!
The weather was fantastic here today. We had a little taste of summer with the temp in the high 20s. The girls and I walked over to the mall and then when John got home we all went for another walk. Emma started waving yesterday and it’s pretty cute. She only seems to like to do it consistently to strangers. She sits in the stroller waving her arm at people. I thought maybe she was getting more used to things but then twice I took them over to the pet store and she started to scream because she was scared of the dogs…
