You can preview mail yet to be delivered.
Informed Delivery provides eligible residential consumers with a digital pr eview of their household's incoming mail scheduled to arrive soon. Users ca n view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of incoming letter-si zed mailpieces (not the inside contents) via email or an online dashboard. Check out our FAQs for more details.
Nice! Thanks, Fred.
I've been using the service since it started in March 2017. Some initial problems:
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
You only get images for Lettermail only that is automatically processed. Not for packages (yet) as far as I could see. I assume that will come...
Very nice service though, I suspect folks will like that a lot.
John
I don't see the value. ...Jim Thompson
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If my next door neighbor signed up, I wouldn't have to track him down to give him the the mail that landed in my box...things are not so stable with all the contract mail carriers these days...no more postal employees "on the streets" it seems.
We have "community" mail box locations out here in the semi-boonies of Arizona, so I just circle the address and stuff it back into the "out" slot.
I've adopted a policy of doing nothing critical using USPS, though Amazon is using USPS here, and they deliver to my door, rather than to the box! ...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson | mens |
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| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
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| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I'm looking for work... see my website.
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That negates any value the service might have.
l preview of their household's incoming mail scheduled to arrive soon. User s can view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of incoming lette r-sized mailpieces (not the inside contents) via email or an online dashboa rd. Check out our FAQs for more details.
They do have a history file that has a copy of the label of a packaged that has been successfully delivered.
Not anymore, it has photos of all the letters now.
One of my neighbors received a USPS Informed Delivery photo of a refund check envelope. However, when she went to pickup the check, it was gone, apparently stolen. After some initial bureaucratic fumbling, payment on the check was stopped in time, and new check was issued.
One of my relatives sent a package to my PO box. Informed delivery allowed me to drop everything and rush to my rural mailbox to grab the package before it could be stolen.
None of the above was apparent when I first signed up for the service. I'm sure there will be more uses when USPS extends the service to PO boxes.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Yep. There are two ways to destroy a system. One is to starve it for adequate information, as per your example. The other is to overload it with too much information, as it might be if the service sent copies of all my snail mail (mostly junk mail). Since the USPS doesn't seem to use email very much, I would not expect them to understand that the value of the Informed Delivery service is in filtering the letters that they photograph and send, and not in the service itself.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
One more obvious use that I forgot to include. When I receive an Informed Delivery message that I should be expecting a letter, and it doesn't arrive because the carrier dumped it in the wrong mailbox (a common occurrence), at least I know about it before bothering the neighbors.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
50% wrong. The email that arrives has exactly one photo. However, if allegedly there are other mail messages, it includes the message: "You may have more mail than is shown here. To check, go to your Dashboard >" at: This turns a very convenient service into a time burner because the above message appears even if there is NO additional mail.
I just discovered another "feature". If I'm logged into the dashboard and looking at my email, any attempt to look at any other web page under Informed Deliver ends up going to the same dashboard page or a redirect failure. I tried looked at the FAQ while logged in, and got an error message. However, when I logged out, it worked just fine. Anyway:
in the future. PO Box customers in certain Post Offices
service to receive a text-only message without images, via email or SMS message. Check with your local Post Office for more details."
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
We don't have a theft problem around here... everyone is armed and have no trouble butting in when they see something going down.
Plus two of my neighbors prominently park their Pinal County Sheriff vehicles on the street ;-)
Very quiet neighborhood. ...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson | mens |
| Analog Innovations | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | |
| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I'm looking for work... see my website.
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Den tirsdag den 19. september 2017 kl. 02.39.39 UTC+2 skrev Jim Thompson:
It's obviously a regional difference, there are no such problems mid-Atlant ic.
Jeff Liebermann wrote on 9/18/2017 8:05 PM:
The other is to make it nearly impossible to sign up for the service. I'd like to have this at my second home where it is a half mile walk to them mailbox (I walk it for the exercise) and a 20 mile drive to the USPO. The online verification doesn't work, I suppose because they can't connect me to this residence, they ask questions which are all "none of the above" answers and I flunk. The alternative is to take my deed to the PO. Really? It's not good enough to have a driver's license to show who I am and to take some mail with my name for this address?
-- Rick C Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998
It's nice to know when the "check is in the mail".
Do you work for the post office?
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
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