Thank you for sharing this. Our current situation is - We've been open for 4.5 years and when we first started out we had a few issues, talked to the city (code office maybe?) they gave verbal permission to have 45 suite numbers, the post office complied with that and we've been getting mail for our members with different suite numbers for 4+ years. A couple weeks ago we started having people say their mail was being returned, address not found or something. We talked to the mail carrier, then the post office. New manager just came in and some how they don't even have record of ANY of our suite numbers, even our main business one! Not to mention the 45 others... No resolution yet as I'm still trying to figure out how to proceed. I don't remember filling out one of the CMRA forms when we started. I think like some of you mentioned, the post office may not be familiar with its own forms.. very frustrating. The immediate resolution is that they will continue to deliver our mail until April 1 while I figure out what to do.
I guess I should fill out the CMRA form? They were telling my office manager we have to get each suite number a permit with the city or some craziness?! Any additional advice? Should I just fill out the form and take it down and see what they say? That's probably what I'll do but I'm just nervous. Offering a suite number/mailing address is a pretty integral part of our business. Most of our members get their business mail here so it's a big deal. On Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 9:05:53 AM UTC-8, Glen Ferguson wrote: > > 5 years of doing CMRA mail service for us. Talking to the post office and > our mail carriers (they seem to change carriers pretty often) was a big > help for us. The understanding they have now, and that works for us, is > anything with our street address gets delivered to us. Period. It's up to > us as a CMRA to sort and distribute the mail, or to reject it and give it > back to the post office with the appropriate rejection wording on it. > > As far as the form to get listed as a CMRA, when we started doing this the > postmaster knew nothing about it, checked with a larger office, and then > took the form. I have a copy of it in my files, but nothing else. Now a few > years later we have a new postmaster and she is a stickler for the 1583 > forms being filled out correctly. So I figure the safest path is to follow > their rules in case a new postmaster ever decides to audit us. If they want > to be lax with adherence to their own rules, good for them - it's their > rules, they can do that. But if I do it, they have a reason to shut me down > if the boss is having a bad day. It's not worth the risk. > > Every member gets a PMB# as that gives them a unique address. It helps to > keep the businesses separate not only for Google Business and SEO reasons, > but also in the event anything questionable (or even just unusual) happens > with one of them. For example, we have a few lawyers here and have had > court officers do the "you've been served" thing you see on TV. (In case > you're ever wondered, that's what box #5 on the PS-1583 form is about. > Restricted delivery is when mail is physically delivered to the addressee > or an authorized agent). > > Having to submit the quarterly updates to the post office only takes a few > minutes, and if you ask your postmaster in advance who the forms should go > to, you can mark it to their attention on a post-it when you hand it to the > front counter staff. It saves a lot of confusion as they've never seen > these forms, but they understand "Please give this report to Harry Smith." > > > *Glen Ferguson* > Phone: 301-732-5165 > Email: [email protected] <javascript:> > Website: https://www.coworkfrederick.com > Address: 122 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701 > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 7:23 AM Jana Greer <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> From the experience I had, the CMRA complicated things and the post >> office doesn’t know what to do. Operated years without it and then >> questioned if we needed it and we were told to not open that can of worms >> 🤷♀️ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
