Well ... not always. Moved from Auburn CA to Sparks NV in summer of
2015. Filed the forwarding notice with Auburn PO and all worked well
... except Verizon. Didn't get bills, they finally sent me a text, CS
agent tells me our address -- and it is wrong, maybe 2 miles from our
real address. CS agent corrects it, still no bills. Next month, CS
agent says our address is again that wrong one and corrects it.
Continue this pattern for about 6 months. After quite a bit of
sleuthing on my part and letters to Verizon [including CEO [:-) ], trips
to PO, it appears:
Pitney-Bowes, of postage meter fame, has a service [I forget name,
Veri<something>?] that will connect with your company database, reach
in, and "correct" addresses therein. Verizon is a subscriber to this
service, and once a month, this happens. P-B says they get their
address information from the USPS. Local postmaster knows nothing.
Actually, no one at USPS anywhere knows about such a database, and no
one is interested in asking P-B who they're downloading addresses from.
P-B does not disclose such data to individuals, apparently even if said
individual is the one whose address they're screwing up. Have never
gotten mail from Verizon, I pay the bill on-line now.
There's the core of a really great dystopian novel in this somewhere. [:-)
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 4/19/2018 12:45 PM, Tox wrote:
FWIW, you can get USPS to correct their database. I don't have the link
handy, but your local postmaster should have a reference.
Scott
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