Odd experience with My USPS -anyone else?

[Crabby Appleton]

5. USPS uses a service from commercial credit reporting company

for identity proofing/verification, so does Social Security and Healthcare.gov by the way.

Here's a little bit about it at this link, 4th paragraph:

http://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/usps-to-partner-with-consumer-credit-company-to-implement-identity-proofing-at-usps-com/

USPS is planning to implement identity proofing for personal (non-business) customers who select this option. Individual (non-business) customers who wish to validate their identities in this manner, and who select this option, would be required to answer questions submitted by a consumer credit reporting company. These questions would relate to the customer’s history, such as past residences, employment, and credit data. Any answers provided by the customer would be sent directly to the credit reporting company. That company would then issue a pass/fail rating which would be sent to the Postal Service. The Postal Service would then store this rating in association with the customer’s account. The pass/fail rating is the only information the Postal Service would store in the identity-proofing process.  Identity verification using this process would only be a requirement for certain products and services to be determined by postal management.