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What's strange is, USPS actually seems to be aware of such services and perhaps endorses them. When I signed up for Virtual Post Mail, and proceeded to setup a

by lgbr 12y ago

What's strange is, USPS actually seems to be aware of such services and perhaps endorses them. When I signed up for Virtual Post Mail, and proceeded to setup a mail forward on the USPS website, I got this message: > Our records indicate that this address is a commercial mail receiving agency (CMRA). If you are forwarding your mail to a CMRA, please enter your private mailbox number (PMB) below. So what did Outbox do to upset USPS? Becuase what I fear is that my mail scanning service will suffer the same fate as Outbox, and suddenly leave me without a way to get mail. I don't live in the US anymore, but I'm still a citizen, I still pay taxes, and I still own property there. Without mail scanning there is no feasible way for someone in my position to receive my mail. How is the water company going to let me know that my bill is past due? How is the city going to let me know that my property taxes have changed? This isn't just a nuissance, this makes it impossible for me to do business in my own country.

Spooky23 12y ago
You have a contract with a third party to receive your mail. I don't think they care about that. Sounds like Outbox wanted to divert mail being delivered to one physical address to another for individuals.
- garrettgrimsley 12y ago
  I don't think that the point at which the mail is diverted is the issue here. The article leads me to believe that the USPS took issue with mass-unsubscribing from junk-mail, not with having mail diverted before reaching the addressee.
  - Spooky23 12y ago
    The article was written from the POV of the guy who blew through alot of investor money on an idea that wasn't really thought through. The USPS has a legal obligation to provide universal service to every physical address. They unsuccessfully tried to hack around it, while ignoring the multitude of solutions available to do so in a real (but perhaps inconvenient to them) way.
Fomite 12y ago
"So what did Outbox do to upset USPS?" Adopted a "laws are for other people" business model.

by lgbr 12y ago

Spooky23 12y ago

You have a contract with a third party to receive your mail. I don't think they care about that. Sounds like Outbox wanted to divert mail being delivered to one physical address to another for individuals.

garrettgrimsley 12y ago
I don't think that the point at which the mail is diverted is the issue here. The article leads me to believe that the USPS took issue with mass-unsubscribing from junk-mail, not with having mail diverted before reaching the addressee.
- Spooky23 12y ago
  The article was written from the POV of the guy who blew through alot of investor money on an idea that wasn't really thought through. The USPS has a legal obligation to provide universal service to every physical address. They unsuccessfully tried to hack around it, while ignoring the multitude of solutions available to do so in a real (but perhaps inconvenient to them) way.

Fomite 12y ago

"So what did Outbox do to upset USPS?" Adopted a "laws are for other people" business model.