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In reply to the discussion: Right NOW go to USPS.com and upper right corner you see INFORMED DELIVERY [View all]h2ebits
(644 posts)35. Verify with your local post office!!
I've been using Informed Delivery for a number of years but I did read a while back that some people have signed up using another person's address so they can monitor and steal out of the mailbox before the intended owner checks their mail box. I live in a building with a number of mailboxes so it would be difficult for someone to steal from me in this manner since the mailboxes are locked and unlocked by the postal carrier making them unavailable to anyone else.
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Right NOW go to USPS.com and upper right corner you see INFORMED DELIVERY [View all]
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
OP
After a theft from the common mailboxes, our apartment complex told us to use it
More_Cowbell
Apr 2020
#2
It really is great. Been using it for a couple of years. Have a community mail station, saves me a
Hoyt
Apr 2020
#3
I've already called the Postmaster about this, and he told me that if the
Totally Tunsie
Apr 2020
#50
Yeah, something is wrong as others are saying. The only thing that doesnt show for me is
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#39
OK so by "package alert" you mean the separate emails that show a package is coming and
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#41
Yes,I know that but what I just learned is I see it on my Iphone and NOT on my laptop...
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#55
Thanks...amazing how some folks react to help, whether needed or not why cant people
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#45
I'm rural and chose to get a PO box in town instead of having a mailbox on the road.
Talitha
Apr 2020
#23
Story about the USPS. I asked my pharmacy via their web site to deliver my scripts
madinmaryland
Apr 2020
#24
Good post, we are spoiled by USPS...if something like Fedex takes over, a nonunion
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#46
Don't want to be Debbie Downer on Informed Delivery, but please beware of possible hacking
iluvtennis
Apr 2020
#28
Especially now...considering even getting the mail is a risk. That is what made me think of
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#51
My PO box is about 6 miles away. I use it to let me know what's in the box
Demovictory9
Apr 2020
#48
I just tried signing up. So frustrating because it refuses to verify my mobile phone number. Guess
catbyte
Apr 2020
#52
Yes, as I recall you do have to get something in the mail, IRS does that also I think.
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#54
Yes; there is an online verification option next to the mail-in option. I've had a USPS account for
catbyte
Apr 2020
#57
GOP are simply a bunch of fascists who want us gone or dead, they dont care which
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#58
I bought stamps at their site also, to be mailed. Has been 3 days I think.
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2020
#61