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I'm accidentally stalking someone via Informed Delivery. They emailed me, saying my address is eligible, so I signed in with my USPS account. It ONLY listed an
by rconti 9y ago
I'm accidentally stalking someone via Informed Delivery.
They emailed me, saying my address is eligible, so I signed in with my USPS account. It ONLY listed an address from 2 moves ago; I haven't lived there in over 6 years. There was no other way to sign up. So I signed up, assuming just some records were out of date, or I'd be able to update my address once signed in.
Nope. I'm getting informed delivery digests for a woman I don't know for an address I haven't lived at in 6 years.
I changed my address in my USPS online profile, and stopped getting the digests, but haven't gotten them for my new address yet.
What's frustrating about this is what's always frustrating about these kinds of services -- I have no idea how they're tracking me, and hence no understanding of how data is indexed.
USPS knows my address. I've filed change of address forms with them every time I've moved. The mail was duly forwarded each time. I've put holds on my mail multiple times when on vacation. The hold was honored. I've bought postage online. Etc.
As an end user, I would't go so far as to say I can't tell how it works, but I shouldn't have to know, and I don't bother. If I file my change of address or mail hold, and it works, that's all I care about. I don't bother to see if I have a saved session, if I'm logged in or if there's just a cookie, and if those services are tied to my online profile. I just go to the site, punch in the info, and use it.
So I found it quite surprising that my online profile would have such horribly out of date info (with no obvious way of updating it during the Informed Delivery signup process).