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From: Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: OT: USPS "informed delivery"
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:50:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-11-20, Don Y wrote:
> On 11/20/2024 8:04 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
>> The informed mail sure comes in hand to a friend of mine.  Almost every
>> week he has to chase down his mail.  There are some similar road names
>> in the county .
>> About once a month my dad got some mail delivered to him that should go
>> aout 10 miles away.  He lived on White Farm  road and the other was just
>> White road.
>
> LOL.  So, they should offer a service to PROVE that they screwed up?
>
> I can't see how taking on an extra cost -- for a FREE SERVICE -- helps
> an agency that is already losing money.  It has to be (IMO) a foot
> in the door to get access to electronic document transfer (mail).

The extra cost of ... what, exactly?  A database row to send an email
containing pictures that their automated processing system is already
taking every day?


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