Forwarding Mail - a cautionary tale...
We've been seasonal camping for a few years now. Each year we have had our mail forwarded by the Post Office. It's been working okay. When we got back last year, there was 1 piece of mail in our ma...
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accsys wrote:
When you fill out an official temporary Change of Address with the postal service, it should never get to your local post office as it is rerouted at a distribution center. I guess if your mail was coming from a local address using your same post office it would never get to the distribution center?
That is what I thought and perhaps at one time it was the case, but now it is not. It makes more sense to me that mail would be forwarded at the point of origin, not the local PO, but when I talked to a rep at the USPS' main customer service center a couple years ago because we were not getting some mail forwarded, I was told that any mail that is forwarded is received by our local PO and then it is our carrier that handles the forwarding.
The first year we had our mail forwarded, we did not receive the one bill that we cannot receive paperless. The bill is sent to Girardo, Michael at my address. When I talked to the USPS' rep about not receiving that bill, I was told that I had to fill out a separate forwarding application for every combination of my name. I told her that I selected the Household option not Individual option when filling out the application so wouldn't that forward all my mail? She said it didn't matter, that the local carrier was looking for Girardo to be the second name listed when putting the forwarding sticker on. When they see Michael second, they send it back to the sender!? Crazy. Ironically, that same year, my wife received a piece of mail sent to her Maiden name. The carrier wrote Girardo on the envelope and it was forwarded to us!! The application I filled out had no mention of her maiden name. We have never received a water bill, mailed to Girardo, Michael, forwarded to us.
-Michael
