Can multiple people at the same address sign up for this?
Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages
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#192I signed up for this after moving out of my apartment and temporarily set up forwarding to my a freind’s address. It’s a great service, though I realized no confirmation was needed for me to start getting this info.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s well known the FBI monitors mail going through USPS. They are able to flag addresses or people for inspection and backtrack all mail.[1][2] People used to send a lot more bombs through the mail and recently anthrax. I’m supprised it’s not so well known. I’m not sure you have an expectation of privacy sending mail through anyone like USPS, FedEx, and UPS. They can open whatever they want at any time. Tracking pac…
>I’m not sure you have an expectation of privacy sending mail through anyone like USPS, FedEx, and UPS One of these things is not like the others. By law, first class mail cannot be opened without a warrant, absent exigent circumstances (eg: it's ticking), it's crossing an international border, or subject to a FISA warrant.[1] Those protections do not apply to UPS or Fedex. [1] https://www.rstreet.org/2014/11/19/yes-…
Yes, there are legal protections for the contents of your (USPS) mail, but I don't think there is much of an expectation of privacy when it comes to information on the outside of your mail (the "metadata").
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does this stop junk mail ? I have this and get an email every day showing me a bunch of mail I don’t want or need.
My mistake. I thought the point was to let you choose to discard mail before receiving it.
That would be awesome, but it’s just a dark foreshadowing of the junk to come.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
^ 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.
It was not a joke, you registered which means you gave them permission to send you emails. You opted-in.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
The dicks are the ones sending out the junk. Don't blame the victims. The remedy for the next guy is to use a "return to sender: moved, left no address" notation or ink-stamp (or just "refused"), and to leave the articles in the mailbox. If they keep coming, a form 3575z (reason: MLNA) is a little more work, and the postal employee has to submit it, but is like a permanent change of address to /dev/null .
> The remedy for the next guy... Again, you're leaving your problems for someone who has no connection to you. It should be you who files those forms to stop the mail you don't want to receive, not the poor person who happens to move in after you.
The 3575z has to have a reason listed, and the only valid reasons all reduce to "that person isn't here". The postal employee won't take the form if you are the addressee.
Again, stop blaming the victims, and start assigning responsibility accurately: to the postal service and to the senders.
The USPS makes too much money from unwanted mailings to make it easy for the recipients to block it.
Besides that, the new resident can always just toss the mail addressed to you in the trash, and the postal service would probably never notice. You only have to jump through the bureaucratic hoops if you are afraid someone might come after you for mishandling mail that isn't yours.
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#197This issue is a privacy / security nightmare. I had my mail forwarded to my colleague while I was traveling for business for 2 months. Signed up for informed delivery with his address but my name (that's how I was forwarding mail). Not only did I not have to verify that I live at that address and hence started receiving emails with images of my incoming mail, but I also received images for his and his wife's mail. Tr…
I had to make the decision just a few days ago and as enticing it seemed that previewing at my mail before it was in my hand wouldn't add any value for me. The other factor was that I did not trust USPS (or any
'non-technical-at-core' company for that matter) with the security and privacy of my data. Looks like it was the right choice not to opt in.
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#198If you sell your house, USPS has no way to know and they keep sending you the emails for your old residence. So now there's no way when you move into a new residence of knowing whether someone else is snooping on your email.
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've rarely had poor experiences with USPS, but not too long ago I filed a change of address after a move and... AFAICT, it did nothing. Some crucial pieces of mail got lost (thanks hostile former housemate!) and it resulted in things like health insurance coverage being interrupted.
I don't know if this is the common case, but with big negative impacts, it seems like a possibility worth accounting for.
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#199Nice - I signed up for it and I'm seeing images of mail being sent to my previous address (that's actually addressed to the current occupants, not my mail being mis-delivered).
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
[Citation needed]
https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2018/pb22492/html/upd... There are exemptions which allow for single mailboxes but going forward all new builds should have cluster boxes.
Thanks for responding, instead of downvoting and moving along like many others before you.