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If 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 res
by PaulStatezny 8y ago
If 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.
- a-wu 8y agoI 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.
- lacey 8y agoI 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.
- a-wu 8y agoIt sounds like they changed it then since I moved only 6 months ago.
- george_perez 8y agoI moved two years ago and even then it unsubscribed me from my previous Informed Delivery subscription. I really don't know what the user above is talking about.
- gowld 8y agoYou 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.
- diminoten 8y agoSame here, moved and now only get informed delivery for my new/current apartment. Considering my mailbox is like a quarter mile away, it's super convenient!
- wwweston 8y agoI'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.
- pkaye 8y agoI still keep getting mail for the former owners of our house from 10 years ago. The first few years I forwarded it but I've since given up.