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PSA/Vent: USPS change of address
So more than a year and a half after moving, I'm still having issues with the post office because I filed a change of address form. It may work just fine for some people, but for me, it's been nothing but a headache.
1) They still continue to forward my parents' mail to my house, even though I only filed (and they confirmed it) an individual change.
2) While the people I spoke to at USPS deny it, they inform businesses of your new address. They told Costco that my dad now lived at my address, and we had to jump through hoops to prove to Costco that USPS lied to them. Kohl's somehow thinks my grandmother (who died in 2002) lives at my house (I moved in 2009). When I called Kohl's about this, the poor woman in customer support was mortified.
3) I asked the post office how to cancel this, and they couldn't tell me. I found out today--over a year later--there's now a way to cancel it online, but my email confirmation letter (which I still have) does not have the confirmation code required to do this. It sounds like if I physically go to the post office and raise a fuss, they should be able to fix it. I guess I'll have to, which is a pain in the ass, since they open at 9am, and I kind of need to leave for work before that.
4) Okay not really related, but the stupid postman continues to put packages in my mailbox that I can't get out. The opening on his side is slightly larger. I have to dismember the package to get it out of my mailbox. Between that and getting important DMV mail for my mom in my mailbox today has made me very cranky. Obviously, if I tried to mail it to her, it would just come back to me again.
Anyway, I'm totally whining. Just take this as a word of warning.
1) They still continue to forward my parents' mail to my house, even though I only filed (and they confirmed it) an individual change.
2) While the people I spoke to at USPS deny it, they inform businesses of your new address. They told Costco that my dad now lived at my address, and we had to jump through hoops to prove to Costco that USPS lied to them. Kohl's somehow thinks my grandmother (who died in 2002) lives at my house (I moved in 2009). When I called Kohl's about this, the poor woman in customer support was mortified.
3) I asked the post office how to cancel this, and they couldn't tell me. I found out today--over a year later--there's now a way to cancel it online, but my email confirmation letter (which I still have) does not have the confirmation code required to do this. It sounds like if I physically go to the post office and raise a fuss, they should be able to fix it. I guess I'll have to, which is a pain in the ass, since they open at 9am, and I kind of need to leave for work before that.
4) Okay not really related, but the stupid postman continues to put packages in my mailbox that I can't get out. The opening on his side is slightly larger. I have to dismember the package to get it out of my mailbox. Between that and getting important DMV mail for my mom in my mailbox today has made me very cranky. Obviously, if I tried to mail it to her, it would just come back to me again.
Anyway, I'm totally whining. Just take this as a word of warning.
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Re: PSA/Vent: USPS change of address
I kind of figure that's what happens when they only charge us 44 cents to take a letter across a continent, but really - charge me more and actually get the mail TO me!
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If it makes you feel any better whatsoever - I moved 4 times in 2.5 years (with a brief stay with FI's parents not included) and I have had to change addresses with the DMV. In Ohio, if you get pulled over and have lived at another residence than the one on your DL for longer than a month - they will fine you.
In two years, I have had 5 drivers licenses *$30 for each one*, had to re-register my car 4 times *$60 each time* and change my address to have my mail forwarded 4 times. My friend lives in my old house and still gets my mail and I am still getting mail MONTHS late from my address 2 years ago.
The post office and this state give me the sads.
When I lost my job in DC, I moved back in with my parents for 3 months so I forwarded my mail to my parents' home. Then I moved to Florida, so I forwarded mail here. Somehow mail that gets sent here sometimes gets sent to my parents, sometimes mail sent to my parents gets sent down here, sometimes mail shows up several weeks/months later after hanging out in DC for awhile.
I will say, we put a "hold" on our mail while we were gone for Christmas break, and while we were afraid of things piling up on the front stoop while we were gone, we had no such problems. That went rather smoothly, considering how inept they all are.
I did a change-of-address from my parents' house a few months ago. (Don't ask me why I never did before.) It was working fine, until a few days ago, when I got a piece of mail from AARP with a membership card inside, addressed to my dad. Nice. I wrote "please forward to" and my parents' address, then left it with the other mail to be picked up. The mail carrier here at work was kind of a d!ck about it. He said "he's just going to throw it out anyway. It's from a non-profit, see?" (points to "no postage necessary" square in upper right corner) I was like, "so, will they forward it or not?" He kept insisting that the recipient would discard it. Um...I DON'T CARE if he throws it out, it's his mail, and I'm sending it back. You can tell me how to do that, or not. I don't need a spiel about people throwing mail from non-profits away. I had to go all NYC on his a$$. GPB, know what I mean?
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[QUOTE]What a pain!! One time, we went out of town and forot to get our mail for about three days. The next week after we got back, we didn't get any mail. My mom called the post office about it and apparently our mailman had them hold our mail because he believed we moved. I could see a week or no mail being picked up but three days?!
Posted by MLekathLEEN[/QUOTE]
Wow...they held it because the mail carrier randomly decided you moved?! That's effed up.
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We also get mail addressed to BF's brother...BF never forwarded his mail and BF's brother has never lived within 400 miles of here. Never.
When my dad moved out of his condo and I was still living there he forwarded his mail and I left mine the same. Well for about 3 months 90% of my mail was getting forwarded to Arkansas with my dad's. And now that we just moved last month we have a hold on all our mail until the 8th at our new place. I hate the USPS.
When I finally got the supervisor, she had me fill out the same form again, but only the top part of it. Then she disappeared and didn't come back, so I handed it to another worker who said, "You didn't fill out the rest." I told him that's what the supervisor said to do. Fingers crossed!
Dreamer - What a pain with the licenses! Here you just write your new address on the back, and you only get one with the new address when it expires (or in my case, you lose your license).
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As of today, we still don't have any forwarded mail - this is getting ridiculous. He's going to call again tomorrow morning and speak to a supervisor and see what's going on.
The other irritation I have with them right now - on Monday my mom took all of the wedding invites to the post office and put them in the box inside instead of in the blue box. Yesterday (just the next day), one of them came back to them - stamp cancelled and everything. There was no "return to sender" or anything on it. We confirmed with the recipient that we had the correct address. My dad took it back to the post office today and the lady said that someone had put it in the machine upside down and the carrier was an idiot for delivering it back to my parent's. So, the lady put it back through and hand stamped it to make sure it would go through this time and thankfully didn't make us use another stamp.