Posted on 07/17/2019 5:40:05 PM PDT by Libloather
No you don’t know.
And that Jury Summons? Yeah, you knew it was there.
But it does let the government keep track of what mail you’re receiving and from whom - very useful to them perhaps......
You obviously have not kept up with the technology nor have you read the article.
Merchant sailors, fishermen and other nomadic type workers use a screening service for their mailing address. The service will email you pictures of letters that are not junk mail(they screen the junk) and you can tell them which to forward to whatever PO box you want to receive them.
It’s a subscription service but worth it if you are on the move.
I like it also. I get an email every morning at 8:30 and it tells me what packages and letters are coming.
It doesn’t do magazines though.
They are doing this anyway. They scan all mail regardless if one is signed up for alerts or not. By sharing at least we know if and when someone steals our mail.
We have the service and we already know if it’s worth a trip to the mailbox........it’s a long walk. Most important bidness is online as far as bills and such. Mostly junk mail daily but if I get a personal letter it’s nice to know it’s there and of course when your new gas cards and credit cards come in you sure want to get those out ASAP.
“It’s not done to help YOU. It’s done to help THEM SNOOP ON YOU.”
The post office has had automated letter sorting equipment for decades and those machines use optical character recognition.
That OCR software by its nature acquires images of letters as it sorts them. Their Informed Delivery service is allowing us to see the images that their sorting machinery generates.
and NOW THERE’S PROOF that you COULD HAVE SEEN IT, even if you say you didn’t get it in the mail!!
We have used Informed Delivery for about a year and find it useful. I also use it to track my elderly parent’s mail.
Yeah right, I signed up for this over a year ago. The registration process went without a hitch. The problem is, for some reason the postal service never activated it so it never started working.
I gave up after a month or so and quit even looking for it to start after that.
Is that all? A while back they had a shortfall (loss) of over a billion in one year.
90% of the mail we get goes directly from our mailbox to the trash can.
Pretty much every mail forewarding service offers this.
RVers and cruising sailors who lack fixed addresses find it useful.
I’ll use it to watch for my $50,000,000 Publisher’s Clearing House check!
They were taking pictures of them anywhere. As they enter the sorting machine it happens. They used to just delete them right away.
There are a few instances where it would be useful.
And that Registered Letter you never picked up?
No joking, that would be a federal offense. Only the addressee can toss the mail.
There is a much better way to secure your mail, better than home delivery or a PO Box that gives away your location.
There are a number of virtual offices that for a very minor fee will receive your mail and scan the envelope to your email.
Then you can ask them to open and scan the doc to your email for a very small fee.
Or they can remail the original to you directly or to a private mail business local to you. Your address is completely buffered and firewalled from everyone, government, credit reporters, ex-wife’s lawyers, creditors, everyone.
You can even give them power of attorney to accept service.
You can pick a virtual office anywhere, Wyoming has the best protection.
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