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USPS is awful from a privacy perspective. USPS will email photos of your incoming mail to anyone who files a change-of-address form with your address as the new address. They don't require any sort of confirmation. I know this because after I moved out of a place and started traveling for a while, I set up forwarding to my parents' address, and after clicking the "informed delivery" checkbox I immediately started get…
The USPS sometimes does some really strange things. The address was for the aunt's house but forwarded to my old apartment.
I have a version of this; I have the email {{popular-asian-surname}}@gmail.com and I've seen _everything_. I've had many many bank statements from India. I've had someone in California order a brand new BMW and got the details for collection. I've had paypal invoices and statements (this is one funny because they refuse to action the delink). I used to reach out and tell them I didn't sign up for their service. But h…
I have one like that. I have the email first.last@gmail.com, and I have a very uncommon last name. Lo and behold, Google let some dude in Australia who happens to share my name sign up with firstlast@gmail.com. According to the docs the two should be equivalent, so they shouldn't have let him sign up, but they did... and now I get his email all the time. I have gotten job offers, bills from medical offices, even one…
I have a version of this; I have the email {{popular-asian-surname}}@gmail.com and I've seen _everything_. I've had many many bank statements from India. I've had someone in California order a brand new BMW and got the details for collection. I've had paypal invoices and statements (this is one funny because they refuse to action the delink). I used to reach out and tell them I didn't sign up for their service. But h…
I briefly had {{firstname}}@gmail.com back when it was invite only. Man that was a mistake.
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は or す would be my suggestions.
Wow, the first one 'は' seems really good. Out of 279 messages in my Spam folder, 216 messages matched that character, missing only 24 additional Japanese spam. (That means 240/279, or 86% of my spam is Japanese, god damn it). The second one 'す' matched only 10 Japanese spam messages.
Another one which might match is Japanese punctuation, such as the comma 、 and the period 。
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/particle-no-noun-mod...
I have a version of this; I have the email {{popular-asian-surname}}@gmail.com and I've seen _everything_. I've had many many bank statements from India. I've had someone in California order a brand new BMW and got the details for collection. I've had paypal invoices and statements (this is one funny because they refuse to action the delink). I used to reach out and tell them I didn't sign up for their service. But h…
Is the incorrectly shared mail piece addressed to someone with a quite similar address, or potentially someone who previously lived there? Just having thought once in a while about how complicated addresses are, I can only imagine all the things that can go wrong. (both for the post office, and for example, credit cards/banks that have to use addresses in validation of purchases, etc) Imagine an apartment building wi…
We started having serious issues with valuable mail turning up missing. Car registration tabs, checks, statements , priceless letters . Informed delivery was inconsistent with physical delivery -- and the postmaster said that's expected. Some valuables were delivered to the wrong address and forwarded weeks later by conscientious neighbors.
What I came to discover is that USPS does not maintain quality controls , neither e2e or at the last line. The post office does not have any sort of log of delivery issues that I could tell. No real testing or auditing is being done (auditing, red-teaming, e2e testing). I doubt they could provide a quantitative measurement of reliability at any level of the system. If a zip code or subdivision had 5% mail go missing over a week, I doubt they would notice or have a protocol for resolving it.
The postmaster and staff did do their best to address the issue, with good customer care and attentiveness. But the issue was never resolved. I now send valuables via other vendors , and rely on USPS for junk mail.
I have a version of this; I have the email {{popular-asian-surname}}@gmail.com and I've seen _everything_. I've had many many bank statements from India. I've had someone in California order a brand new BMW and got the details for collection. I've had paypal invoices and statements (this is one funny because they refuse to action the delink). I used to reach out and tell them I didn't sign up for their service. But h…
I once got an email about the funeral arrangements for somebody's mother. I know this person very well, because he uses my email address for everything. I know what internet subscription he has. I know where he bought his e-bike. Where he goes on holiday. Etc. And he's actually not the only person doing this! As far as I can tell, the only unusual thing about my Gmail is that it's relatively short and has no numbers.…
It really makes you appreciate proper email address validation - all sorts of services let people sign up, don't validate and there's no good way to have your email address removed from their account...