[Elecraft] OT: shipper from H

[Fred Jensen]

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
>
>