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> As a matter of principle, I am not paying a $2 "processing fee" to stop people from sending garbage to my mailbox. I feel like that must be relatively new.
by tablespoon 4y ago
> As a matter of principle, I am not paying a $2 "processing fee" to stop people from sending garbage to my mailbox.
I feel like that must be relatively new. I swear I used that site and I'm pretty sure I didn't have to pay a fee.
I bet they added it to discourage people from going through with the process.
- ceejayoz 4y agoA $1 authorized charge would work for a little bit of "real person here" verification, but I'd imagine the $2 is to discourage auto-filling an entire town's worth of people via a script; all you'd need is, say, a voter registration list to get the necessary info of name and address.
- bilalnpe 4y agoThey could confirm the address you are requesting with the billing address on the card. This is what the '$1 authorized charge' is for when you submit the address change/mail forwarding request.
- ceejayoz 4y agoAVS chokes on apartment numbers pretty regularly.
- hamburglar 4y agoI get shit loads of junk mail at my second address, which is not the billing address for my credit cards. They have to have a way to deal with that too.