New Post Office Rules

[John N Mi]

I recently moved. Filled in the change of address card. Went for two weeks at the new address and did not get any mail. Complained to the postmaster and was given a card to fill in with the LAST name of all people to recieve mail in my mail box. Had to prove my idenity for them to accept the card. The next day my box was stuffed with two weeks of mail. This is supposed to help with idenity theft.
John
PS I am now John S Mi

 

[NcNE]

I recently moved as well. When I filled out the form online, they said in order to prove my identity they neede to charge my credit card $1.00.

 

[Sean Feeney]

Wish i could fill something out to not get the 70% junk mail. Harbor freight must send 12 pcs a month. phone co,cable co, credit card offers etc...

 

[RAW in IA]

My daughter is moving next week and wife went in to check on changing her address. We have a PO box becauseof thier stupid dog rules, and they said thwey cannot take her off the PO box as she is listed as a recipient. She has to contact anyone she wants to know her new address!

 

[R2D2]

The best results will be to do it on-line,I know from past experience. usps.com

 

[Lanse]

Hey R2. Seems everything is easier online

 

[S.Crum]

I'm in the process of building a large outdoor 'water heater' (read: boiler for us normal folk). The design is to have a large reserve water capacity so the fire burns like h**l until the water is at temp then it dies down to about nothing until it calls to burn hard again. I was joking with the local postmaster that I was going to subscribe to every piece of junk mail from Harbor Freight to Hanes panty hose I could so the post office could deliver my "heating fuel" free of charge. For some reason he was not amused.

 

[R2D2]

Yep,especially on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

 

[Sean Feeney]

How often will it need to be fired up, capacity and heat loss. I came very close to buying a outdoor furnace a several weeks ago but the dealer was playing games. Since then some of the local towns are putting a lot of regs on these, distance to nearest house, hight of smoke stack, pemit from health dept , building dept, fire dept, etc.. Some of the people that are buying these i think are not going to be loading wood in bad weather, or at 2am I'll wait and see if there will be some deals in the near future (price) on slightly used units. Cost of boiler, piping exchanger would have been over 8k. yours sounds interesting.

 

[Lanse]

Or when you have nothing better to do then to lurk online

 

[greenbeanman in Kansas]

You can.
No bulk mail please.

 

[R2D2]

Off sets your devious opinion.

 

[Brian Jasper co. Ia]

After 3 years worth of collection letters and calls for my ex, I purposely didn't fill out a change of address when I moved. No matter how many times you tell those people "No, she doesn't live here any more." It doesn't deter them at all. When I got married again, we decided to live in her house so the phone is still in her maiden name. Just notify the important senders and be happy you're not on any junk mail lists yet.

 

[Mike (WA)]

I'll do it for 50 cents. Please send credit card number ASAP.

 

[robersw]

I know the feeling.

We are in the very early stages of building a house. I called the 911 office and got our mailing address setup. So now I can give an address to everyone (you all know the utilities will do nothing for you without an address). So a couple weeks go by with no mail. I get my wife to send a test letter to our new address, still no mail. Another week or so...stil no mail. So she goes to the PO one day to ask if we needed to have something setup, they said no, but they couldn't deliver mail without a dwelling present. She said well we had to use the address for utilities, etc. They said yes we understand it is difficult at this stage. She asked what we needed to do, forwarding or something. They said they couldn't forward from an address with no dwelling.
Anyway, so the next day I went online and used the online forwarding form and 5 days later we are now getting the mail that was destined for our house site.

Amazing how things work?!?
Scott

 

[JML755]

John N Mi,
Yeah, the Post Office does not use common sense rules. Last year, our daughter (who had relocated to Washington DC) came home for a month, so she had her mail forwarded to our house. Worked ok. She went back and had the "forwarding" cancelled. She then started getting one regular piece of mail for my wife and I forwarded to her DC apt. She is listed on one of our bank accounts, her name shows up on the statements along with my wife and I, so the PO sees my daughter's name and sends OUR stuff to DC. They said anything with her name will be re-directed even if there's more than one name on it. It's been a year and we're still trying to get it corrected.

Address problems don't only apply to the PO. When my other daughter went to DC for a couple of months to live with her sister, she had a prescription sent there from the mail order prescription center. Lo and behold when I ordered a prescription, it went to DC as well. Called them up and they said they couldn't understand why, because they still had the correct address on my records. I told them to erase the DC address from my records and I had them check my wife's records as she had just ordered some drugs. Said they had the correct address for her, even read it back to me. On the day they filled my wife's prescription, they called and enquired about the address, they were confused! She again stated to get rid of the DC address and send it to us. Had them verify the address they were shipping to. Ok. Two days later, my daughter called from DC and said my wife's drugs showed up there!!!! Talk about incompetence!

Wife called her HR dept at work and they've been trying to straighten it out for a week. They say "it's a complcated situation". Now, how hard can it be to enter the correct address on a computer screen? If it is so difficult, then the morons are the people who designed their databases.