We have had our address changed twice where all of our mail was diverted to another location for weeks the first time and about a month the second time. The first time I was able to find out where the mail had been diverted to, which did me absolutely no good as the police had zero interest into looking into it. It is not their jurisdiction you see.
The second time the people at the post office after making me jump through all sorts of hoops, at first refused to even acknowledge that a change of address had again been done. After multiple calls it still took about a week to get any response back from them at all, and never anything meaningful. I ended up filing another Change of Address myself online to a different address. It was another week before we started getting our mail again. Then I was able to change the address back.
But what a nightmare and this was not even full on identity theft, although I am sure that was the intention.
Along with stealing checks and packages. I have lost all confidence in the people running our post offices and the US Postal Service. They were much less than helpful. No one would tell me anything at all the second time around at any point. It was quite obvious that everyone that I dealt with could not have cared at all and just were their to collect a paycheck. They enable this crime by doing changes of address with no verification any time someone fills out a little change of address card. When criminals steal mail this way the people I dealt with treated me like I was a nuisance. If you think that they would have any desire to find and bring the criminals to justice... you are going to get an education.
Some one locally posted a picture yesterday of one of the nearby “community” mail boxes. It was wide open and you could see mail and packages just sitting there. I mean WTH? The carrier forgot to close it up after filling it? What should we expect for (?) $40.00/hr? I have no clue what the post office pays these days. Anyone? Bueller? Any PO workers on here?