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by wristmittens 3184 days ago
I tied my email address to my USPS address three apartments and half a decade ago. Apparently I never updated it since I'm now receiving email from Informed Delivery with images of mail addressed to that apartment which is obviously not addressed to me...
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I wonder if they’ve thought through this use case for apartments. It seems like you shouldn’t receive anything that doesn’t match your name or “current resident”.
When I registered a change of address with USPS they automatically canceled my informed delivery at the old address.

You also cannot have multiple addresses. So you would need to cancel your old informed digest to register your new address for informed digest.

I guess the best solution would be for them to periodically send a letter to registered addresses with a code they can use to view/manage informed digest reciepients for that address.

It all works out if you do moving notification with them. Which everybody should be doing, as things from the IRS or old utility bills sometimes tend to not make it to new address you give them.

Plus some of the moving coupons they mail you are pretty good deals. Win-win.

Incorrect. My Informed Delivery information was 2 moves out of date and I always file change of address, my ballots are sent to the new address, etc.

Looking back on it, I don't think there's any requirement you use your usps.gov login to file a change of address, but that site's info is what they use for informed delivery.