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by jngreenlee 2958 days ago
Not for me! I switched to a mail forwarding service (US Global Mail of Houston, TX) many years ago. The benefits are many-fold: -I no longer change my address when I move (my wife and I have lived in an flipped 10+ houses in 6 years) -I get to view full color envelope scans of all my mail at anytime and choose what to: fully scan, bundle and forward, or toss in the rubbish -I got to sign off with notarized US Govt forms that i am "no longer a customer of the USPS" -The only mail that arrives at my physical address is thus spam, and I toss all of it (I should rig a trash can to the bottom of the mailbox) -The price point is well within reason
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Perhaps move your mailbox to directly feed into your recycle can, with a transparent tube so the mailman can watch it go straight into the recycling!
I used Earth Class Mail for years while moving around for school and work. I even put my ECM address on my resume along with my phone number. As is typical of these services, among ECM's many customers were scam businesses. If you Googled the address of some fly-by-night company to get a phone number after being ripped-off or defrauded, my resume would be at the top of the search results, along with my phone number. I regularly received phone calls from upset and confused people. Fortunately it was easy to explain the mixup.
Hey awesome! I'm glad you like it. I built that whole system from about 100 customers. I don't work there anymore but I did really enjoy making that stuff work.
Thank you for your part of the product! It is good.
What's the form that says you're no longer a customer?