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It sounds like they are saying it is not by design, but a mistake that they allowed you to sign up when your location isn't yet meeting the requirements. At le

by jsight 8y ago

It sounds like they are saying it is not by design, but a mistake that they allowed you to sign up when your location isn't yet meeting the requirements. At least that is how I read the line about "unable to offer[...]until the coding is complete".

CharlesColeman 8y ago
> It sounds like they are saying it is not by design, but a mistake that they allowed you to sign up when your location isn't yet meeting the requirements. Yeah, IIRC they don't support this feature for PO boxes, but I managed to accidentally get it for mine when I filed a change of address form. I regularly see notifications for mail really indented for a few other PO boxes. It's pretty clear that their automated sorting equipment is not perfect, and that they're relying on the postman to do a final quality-control check. This is actually an improvement from several years ago, when I'd actually sometimes get the mis-sorted mail in my box. Now that hardly ever happens.
- inferiorhuman 8y ago
  Yeah, IIRC they don't support this feature for PO boxes, but I managed to accidentally get it for mine when I filed a change of address form. I use this with my PO box just fine. The problem is that the pictures are taken at the sorting center not at your local post office. So when things get really busy you'll get the picture a day or two before the letter ends up in your box.
  - CharlesColeman 8y ago
    They may have changed it. When I initially signed up, I tried to add the PO Box explicitly, but they rejected it as unsupported.
- Spooky23 8y ago
  It’s not the postman, it’s that physical addresses get aligned with the stop on a mail route and other types of delivery do not.
- lwf 8y ago
  That's strange, especially since every PO box* is in fact a unique ZIP+4, so more than meets the "unique delivery point" requirement. For example, the full ZIP+4 of "PO BOX 391234, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139" is "02139-1234".

by jsight 8y ago

CharlesColeman 8y ago

> It sounds like they are saying it is not by design, but a mistake that they allowed you to sign up when your location isn't yet meeting the requirements. Yeah, IIRC they don't support this feature for PO boxes, but I managed to accidentally get it for mine when I filed a change of address form. I regularly see notifications for mail really indented for a few other PO boxes. It's pretty clear that their automated sorting equipment is not perfect, and that they're relying on the postman to do a final quality-control check. This is actually an improvement from several years ago, when I'd actually sometimes get the mis-sorted mail in my box. Now that hardly ever happens.

inferiorhuman 8y ago
Yeah, IIRC they don't support this feature for PO boxes, but I managed to accidentally get it for mine when I filed a change of address form. I use this with my PO box just fine. The problem is that the pictures are taken at the sorting center not at your local post office. So when things get really busy you'll get the picture a day or two before the letter ends up in your box.
- CharlesColeman 8y ago
  They may have changed it. When I initially signed up, I tried to add the PO Box explicitly, but they rejected it as unsupported.
Spooky23 8y ago
It’s not the postman, it’s that physical addresses get aligned with the stop on a mail route and other types of delivery do not.
lwf 8y ago
That's strange, especially since every PO box* is in fact a unique ZIP+4, so more than meets the "unique delivery point" requirement. For example, the full ZIP+4 of "PO BOX 391234, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139" is "02139-1234".