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gotsmart
Nov 20, 2014Explorer
...and one more item for the OP. The USPS has an FAQ that says that your address for your private mailbox has to use PMB as the first address line or on the street address line UNLESS you can't use the PMB designator. Then you can use the # sign. Figure that one out.
Now, the place that I rent my mailbox from told me that as long as my box number is somewhere on the address so that they don't have to look me up on the computer - that they don't care if I use PMB, UNIT, #, STE, BLDG, ROOM, APT, FLOOR, etc.
So for banking, insurance, pension, health insurance, credit card, cell phone, utility bills, federal/state taxes, TurboTax, etc - I type in: PMB xxxx on the street address line. If PMB isn't accepted I type in # xxxx on the street address line. If the # sign isn't accepted I look for a line (or box) to enter an apartment number and I type in my mailbox number. That's it.
I have not had the address police come after me for incorrect labeling of my private mailbox address and have yet to have any mail not delivered because I did not have the "approved" syntax for a private mailbox on the address line.
Now, the place that I rent my mailbox from told me that as long as my box number is somewhere on the address so that they don't have to look me up on the computer - that they don't care if I use PMB, UNIT, #, STE, BLDG, ROOM, APT, FLOOR, etc.
So for banking, insurance, pension, health insurance, credit card, cell phone, utility bills, federal/state taxes, TurboTax, etc - I type in: PMB xxxx on the street address line. If PMB isn't accepted I type in # xxxx on the street address line. If the # sign isn't accepted I look for a line (or box) to enter an apartment number and I type in my mailbox number. That's it.
I have not had the address police come after me for incorrect labeling of my private mailbox address and have yet to have any mail not delivered because I did not have the "approved" syntax for a private mailbox on the address line.
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