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The purpose of the function is to update any entity that legitimately has your name/address as to your new address. It's used by Magazine publishers to automat

The purpose of the function is to update any entity that legitimately has your name/address as to your new address. It's used by Magazine publishers to automatically update your subscription addresses. It's also used by companies you've done business with but might not have updated your address info such as a specialist doctor you visited once or your old insurance company. I personally think that's of more value than stopping junk mailers from sending me personalized junk mail. You're going to get the junk mail either way.

dheera 6y ago
No, screw that. 99% of people who get updated address via USPS are illegitimate. If they think they're doing me a service, they're not. Specialist doctors can just e-mail me. This is 2021. My physical address has changed at least 8 times in the past 2 decades. My e-mail address hasn't changed in that whole time. I don't subscribe to magazines, and even if I did, you'd be sure as hell that I would update my address if I was paying for something.
- cptskippy 6y ago
  > 99% of people who get updated address via USPS are illegitimate. Is there any evidence to back that up or is that one of those "Feel Facts"? So it's not beneficial to you but many people change their email address with greater frequency than they do their mailing address so your solution wouldn't work either.
  - dheera 6y ago
    In my case it's 100%. I change my address with anyone who needs it. Anyone who doesn't get contacted by me doesn't need to know. It's my personal information and before they try to do me a "service" by giving it away, they should ASK me. What next, give away my address to stalkers who knew where I lived before? Fuck that.
    - cptskippy 6y ago
      So no then? > they try to do me a "service" by giving it away, they should ASK me. You realize this is a voluntary service you sign up for? They make it clear the reasons for doing it.
      - dheera 6y ago
        I agree it's voluntary, which is why I don't do it. But no, they don't make it clear that they will GIVE my new address to people. It's FAR from clear. They should have a service that does mail forwarding without handing out new address to people.
        cptskippy 6y ago
        It explains exactly what the information is used for at the bottom of the first step in the Privacy Act Statement. They even provide a link to the NCOALink page explaining how the COA DB program works. https://moversguide.usps.com/mgo/move-combined https://moversguide.usps.com/mgo/move-combined
        dheera 6y ago
        Yeah, I don't like the way it works.

dheera 6y ago

No, screw that. 99% of people who get updated address via USPS are illegitimate. If they think they're doing me a service, they're not. Specialist doctors can just e-mail me. This is 2021. My physical address has changed at least 8 times in the past 2 decades. My e-mail address hasn't changed in that whole time. I don't subscribe to magazines, and even if I did, you'd be sure as hell that I would update my address if I was paying for something.

cptskippy 6y ago
> 99% of people who get updated address via USPS are illegitimate. Is there any evidence to back that up or is that one of those "Feel Facts"? So it's not beneficial to you but many people change their email address with greater frequency than they do their mailing address so your solution wouldn't work either.
- dheera 6y ago
  In my case it's 100%. I change my address with anyone who needs it. Anyone who doesn't get contacted by me doesn't need to know. It's my personal information and before they try to do me a "service" by giving it away, they should ASK me. What next, give away my address to stalkers who knew where I lived before? Fuck that.
  - cptskippy 6y ago
    So no then? > they try to do me a "service" by giving it away, they should ASK me. You realize this is a voluntary service you sign up for? They make it clear the reasons for doing it.
    - dheera 6y ago
      I agree it's voluntary, which is why I don't do it. But no, they don't make it clear that they will GIVE my new address to people. It's FAR from clear. They should have a service that does mail forwarding without handing out new address to people.
      - cptskippy 6y ago
        It explains exactly what the information is used for at the bottom of the first step in the Privacy Act Statement. They even provide a link to the NCOALink page explaining how the COA DB program works. https://moversguide.usps.com/mgo/move-combined https://moversguide.usps.com/mgo/move-combined
        dheera 6y ago
        Yeah, I don't like the way it works.