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Oh great, Letitia James’ office is on a roll! It’s well known how annoying this process is with deal communities, to the point that everyone recommends using t

Oh great, Letitia James’ office is on a roll! It’s well known how annoying this process is with deal communities, to the point that everyone recommends using temporary cards (like Privacy) to avoid the hassle with cancellations. Unfortunately that doesn’t stop the mountain of sales outreach they’ll try after you’re no longer a subscriber.

cyanydeez 3y ago
I'm surprised someone hasn't started a "Warehouse POBOX" style address location where you can just maintain like a 5 dollar address as long as you complete appropiate paperwork. Obviously, that'd be abused, but man, all these lawless corporations acting with impunity to common decent regulation enforcement makes some aweful work for no particular value to society.
- jabroni_salad 3y ago
  virtual mailing addresses are real. I have one for my LLC (they bin spam and forward on real correspondence) and there are more involved services for RVers to forward batches to their current location or do mail-to-email.
- henrikschroder 3y ago
  There's a ton of services like that. You pick one of the physical addresses they offer, get a unique mail address to you, and whenever mail arrives they scan the envelope, giving you the choice to either shred, open and scan contents, or forward.
  - csdvrx 3y ago
    > they scan the envelope, giving you the choice to either shred, open and scan contents, or forward That's nice! Can you suggest one (or more) services you like? Does it have to be in the state you live in? (ex: matching the driver license address)
    - henrikschroder 3y ago
      I used one years ago, and I think it was this one: https://travelingmailbox.com/ https://travelingmailbox.com/ They have a bunch of addresses for you to pick from, and it works the same way for any other similar service, so check around and see if one has addresses that you like. The keyword is "mail forwarding service". For US addresses, there's a form you have to sign and get notarized to authorize them to handle your mail, because USPS does not fuck around with people illegally handling someone's mail.
  - hiatus 3y ago
    In my experience, there is a bit of friction as you need to get a form from the post office and have it notarized before a third-party can accept and forward mail on your behalf.
- davchana 3y ago
  I hope (& have suggested) that USPS themselves should offer virtual po boxes like domain name, which themselves should have an underlying forwarding address (with no leakage to companies like data lists, forwarding address requested etc). Company sends a letter to me at that virtual po box, usps scanner systems see it, slap a yellow (or brown) sticker with correct/forwarding address.

cyanydeez 3y ago

I'm surprised someone hasn't started a "Warehouse POBOX" style address location where you can just maintain like a 5 dollar address as long as you complete appropiate paperwork. Obviously, that'd be abused, but man, all these lawless corporations acting with impunity to common decent regulation enforcement makes some aweful work for no particular value to society.

jabroni_salad 3y ago
virtual mailing addresses are real. I have one for my LLC (they bin spam and forward on real correspondence) and there are more involved services for RVers to forward batches to their current location or do mail-to-email.
henrikschroder 3y ago
There's a ton of services like that. You pick one of the physical addresses they offer, get a unique mail address to you, and whenever mail arrives they scan the envelope, giving you the choice to either shred, open and scan contents, or forward.
- csdvrx 3y ago
  > they scan the envelope, giving you the choice to either shred, open and scan contents, or forward That's nice! Can you suggest one (or more) services you like? Does it have to be in the state you live in? (ex: matching the driver license address)
  - henrikschroder 3y ago
    I used one years ago, and I think it was this one: https://travelingmailbox.com/ https://travelingmailbox.com/ They have a bunch of addresses for you to pick from, and it works the same way for any other similar service, so check around and see if one has addresses that you like. The keyword is "mail forwarding service". For US addresses, there's a form you have to sign and get notarized to authorize them to handle your mail, because USPS does not fuck around with people illegally handling someone's mail.
- hiatus 3y ago
  In my experience, there is a bit of friction as you need to get a form from the post office and have it notarized before a third-party can accept and forward mail on your behalf.
davchana 3y ago
I hope (& have suggested) that USPS themselves should offer virtual po boxes like domain name, which themselves should have an underlying forwarding address (with no leakage to companies like data lists, forwarding address requested etc). Company sends a letter to me at that virtual po box, usps scanner systems see it, slap a yellow (or brown) sticker with correct/forwarding address.