I really don't want to see the mail after it arrives. During it's travel - nah.
When people in my area have to drive 10 miles round trip to get the mail it is useful to know if anything is there. If you are expecting something important you do not have to drive 10 miles a day to see if it it there.
The post office and yourself are not the only ones who can see that information. You can bet that the government has free access. And who knows who else. Think the FaceBook model.
The USPS lost $814 million in 2017.
Now I know why.
It’s bad enough I have to see it when it arrives. Why in God’s name would I want to see it beforehand? Most of it’s junk mail anyway. No wonder the postal service is bankrupt.
I was told that if you dont sign up your address, a bad guy could and then sit there watch for checks or credit cards coming in. My daughter signed up to watch ours and I know when to watch for important things... to make sure if they are delivered correctly. We finally got a good one again, but we had one that delivered stuff wtong all the time.
I’ve used this service for about six months and I like it.
Yeah okay.. I'm stupid enough to fall for this deception.
I use it. My husband prefers a P O Box to a box on the street because that street is a mile from the house on a private lane. Our choice of P O Boxes are a 20 minute drive one way or the other. I watch for things that are important before we drive down.
There isn’t an option to delete any mail before you get it.
The machines are getting images of the mail anyway, so the machines can sort pieces without barcodes, so they were getting those images before the made them available to customers.
I’ve had this service for about a year now and it’s very useful, I know if something is in my PO box.
Yes sir
The government is tracking every form of communication and everywhere the citizens go.
Free Country?
HA!
They scan it anyway like it or not. I like it because I know if I need to go down to the road to get my mail.
But it does let the government keep track of what mail you’re receiving and from whom - very useful to them perhaps......
We have used Informed Delivery for about a year and find it useful. I also use it to track my elderly parent’s mail.
Yeah right, I signed up for this over a year ago. The registration process went without a hitch. The problem is, for some reason the postal service never activated it so it never started working.
I gave up after a month or so and quit even looking for it to start after that.
Pretty much every mail forewarding service offers this.
RVers and cruising sailors who lack fixed addresses find it useful.
I’ll use it to watch for my $50,000,000 Publisher’s Clearing House check!
There is a much better way to secure your mail, better than home delivery or a PO Box that gives away your location.
There are a number of virtual offices that for a very minor fee will receive your mail and scan the envelope to your email.
Then you can ask them to open and scan the doc to your email for a very small fee.
Or they can remail the original to you directly or to a private mail business local to you. Your address is completely buffered and firewalled from everyone, government, credit reporters, ex-wife’s lawyers, creditors, everyone.
You can even give them power of attorney to accept service.
You can pick a virtual office anywhere, Wyoming has the best protection.
I signed up for that 2 years ago. It is useful to see what’s coming, I like it.