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Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by theaccordance »

jtokoph wrote: post #68
theaccordance wrote: post #55

You mean to tell me I can get a daily spam message showing me previews of all the spam coming to my physical inbox?

The funny part is that they don’t scan the kind of spam that is blanketed to your area like grocery store inserts and local gym offers (the stuff that isn’t actually addressed to you). They do still scan the targeted spam like credit card offers and such. They don’t scan magazines either. Just individually addressed envelopes and postcards.

Except every exception you've outlined has been delivered to me in my daily previews since signing up 6 months ago

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by theaccordance »

dugluak wrote: post #74
theaccordance wrote: post #55

You mean to tell me I can get a daily spam message showing me previews of all the spam coming to my physical inbox?

You have to register to get the daily digest of the physical mail. That is not a spam.

^ Didn't get the joke.

I'm aware you have to register; I've been registered for 6 months. My comment is based off of 6 months of these daily emails.

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by Rebelgecko »

logfromblammo wrote: post #69
sl1ck731 wrote: post #37

This has been great for deciding if I want to walk out to the mailbox in the winter or not. But I believe signing up for this caused me to get a ton of junk mail. There is something about either forwarding/address changing or this informed delivery that allows USPS to sell your new address to junk mailers. I signed up for both at the same time and was flooded with new junk mail the day I moved in. It gives me a serio…

The workaround is to do a temporary change of address, and contact each company that sends you mail forwarded from your old address individually, to update your address record. When the mail stops forwarding, you stop getting mail from anyone that you didn't explicitly inform of your new address. The permanent change of address triggers advertising that targets new residents. Restaurants want to try to snag your regu…

It's also one of the best ways to get the vaunted Bed Bath and Beyond 20% off your entire purchase coupon. Depending on how much stuff you're buying after you move, that can be worth a little junk mail

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by theaccordance »

dawnerd wrote: post #71
theaccordance wrote: post #55

You mean to tell me I can get a daily spam message showing me previews of all the spam coming to my physical inbox?

They actually don’t scan most of the spam. Only ones that end up getting scanned are credit card offers and those Comcast ones that try to look like official business letters. Seems more often than not they straight up don’t bother to email me though.

Yeah that doesn't align with my experience. All of my spam is scanned and shown in my daily preview

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by PaulHoule »

crazygringo wrote: post #38

I tried signing up for this 3 months ago, and was shocked to receive images for the mail of literally everyone in my building (I'm one of seven apartments). Huuuge privacy violation. (It's just images of the envelopes, but that still tells you a lot.) I unsubscribed and then went to file feedback, and got an immediate reply explaining this was by design : > Thank you for participating in Informed Delivery®. You recen…

I live in a rural area on a plot of land that has two houses and a total of three housing units on it.

We get our mail in one mailbox.

When I signed up for Informed Delivery I was told that I couldn't get it because I was an improperly coded housing complex.

I asked my postmistress about it and she told me that that was because we get the mail in one box and that we could have it coded correctly if we got three boxes.

The system worked in my case.

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by nkozyra »

chrismeller wrote: post #59
nkozyra wrote: post #43

This is still a security concern. I live in a building in NYC with a shared mailbox for both apartments. I can see every piece of mail my neighbor gets. Granted, I see this when I open the mailbox, but having a digital record of it in inherently insecure email is a bit concerning.

Email aspect aside, if you have a shared mailbox it’s actually not inherently any less secure... you could be taking a picture of every piece of mail every day anyway. Their privacy isn’t really being violated any more or less than it already was.

I mentioned that; but it's effectively me making a decision for someone else to have images of their mail disseminated electronically via an insecure route.

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by wolfpwner »

crazygringo wrote: post #38

I tried signing up for this 3 months ago, and was shocked to receive images for the mail of literally everyone in my building (I'm one of seven apartments). Huuuge privacy violation. (It's just images of the envelopes, but that still tells you a lot.) I unsubscribed and then went to file feedback, and got an immediate reply explaining this was by design : > Thank you for participating in Informed Delivery®. You recen…

True, I live in an apartment with a roommate. I also see his incoming mails

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by octorian »

I love this service for the parcel data, for pretty much the same reasons as the UPS and FedEx equivalents. It means I actually know what parcels are headed my way, regardless of whether or not someone explicitly gave me a tracking number. Makes it much easier to know when I'm getting something.

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by gowld »

lacey wrote: post #57
a-wu wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. When I filed my change of address/mail forwarding, they sent me an email saying that Informed Delivery was suspended on my old address and then they also sent a letter to the old address which was forwarded to the new address which basically said the same thing. I guess if you don’t file change of address then they won’t know.

I did file a change address a year ago and yet continued to receive the emails from my previous address. As mentioned in my reply to another comment, I tried unsuccessfully to convince them that this was a problem, and they told me it was my responsibility to also discontinue the emails. Perhaps they have changed their position in the last year.

You aren't going to change USPS policy by telling a low-level customer support agent that the policy is wrong. They aren't paid for that.

Re: Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages

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Post by cobalt »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #83
logfromblammo wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The workaround is to do a temporary change of address, and contact each company that sends you mail forwarded from your old address individually, to update your address record. When the mail stops forwarding, you stop getting mail from anyone that you didn't explicitly inform of your new address. The permanent change of address triggers advertising that targets new residents. Restaurants want to try to snag your regu…

It's also one of the best ways to get the vaunted Bed Bath and Beyond 20% off your entire purchase coupon. Depending on how much stuff you're buying after you move, that can be worth a little junk mail

i have never found anything at bbb that wasn't already 20% cheaper on amazon/other site
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