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Somewhere in some database, my house is listed as a 12 unit apartment building. I've begged my postal delivery people, the local office, and the regional office
by eclipticplane 4y ago
Somewhere in some database, my house is listed as a 12 unit apartment building. I've begged my postal delivery people, the local office, and the regional office to stop, block, or otherwise stop. I've contacted the companies sending the mail begging for them to tell me where they bought my info -- not because I'm upset they bought it, but to find out which database it is. There are no apartments. It's just a house. But almost every day of the week I get 12+ copies of something. Catalogs are the worst since they don't even fit in the mailbox. The postal carrier just drops them on the ground wrapped in a plastic bag.
The fun part is that I can calculate a spoilage rate of the mail. In any day, there's usually 1 random apartment number missing from the stack of 12.
- craz8 4y agoI have a doppelgänger address that causes trouble (US addresses can have N, S, W, and other compass modifiers that are critical to accuracy). Fedex is the worst, as they have a manual override that mostly, but not always, catches the address and reroutes to the correct truck Other delivery places get mixed up too - the handoff between restaurant online purchase systems and the delivery company (usually Doordash recently) is clearly broken, and shared between many restaurants. That one can send them to an address that actually doesn’t exist at all and maps to the middle of an intersection. But now we know well the family that gets many of our misrouted packages. I have no idea which common database needs to be updated to get this fixed - USPS is no help here