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A return address is better than no address at all! What exactly does this mean? It means exactly what it says, if you mail an envelope to pay a bill, and you forget to include your return address on the envelope, and the bill happens to get wet, and the address gets smeared by the rain, then you have a better chance of getting the mail returned to you so that you can put the bill in another envelope, or you can simply put a label over the address in order to fix it. If you have a relative who lives in Europe, and they have a birthday and, you spend $50 on shipping a package with birthday items, it makes all of the sense in the world to leave a return address in the event that you haven’t communicated with your relative in an extended period of time, because the address that your mailing the item to could be a tear down, meaning that the old home that your relative used to live in is now a 8 plex, meaning that there are now 8 units occupying what was once a single story house, so you want to give yourself an opportunity to recover your package in the event that your relative has moved over 3 years ago. One of the items that normally doesn’t have a return address is normally a post card, or a wedding invitation, but if there’s room on the invitation it’s in your best interest to put a return address on the envelope in the event that your college friend has moved from Rhode Island to Miami. One of the best solutions is to call your friend, or relative before sending, and spending money on shipping when they may no longer live at their last known address, communication is the key, it can save you a lot on money, and heartache on shipping an item where a friend, or relative no longer resides at. A return address is better than no address at all! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Getting a divorce, and going back to your maiden name! Divorce, unfortunately it happens, sometimes there’s cheating involved, money issues, or two people who were married just fell out of love, either way, you have to do what’s in your best interest to protect yourself, and your assets. So Johnny Doe, met and married his college sweetheart after one year of dating, and upon graduating from college, they both decided to take jobs in the same city in San Diego, California. Johnny, is in pharmaceutical sales, and his wife Jennifer is nurse at one of the local hospitals in San Diego. Johnny, has a business trip to Boston, and while checking his email, and messages on Facebook, he realizes that the Lyft driver is waiting outside for his scheduled ride to the airport. He grabs his luggage, and rushes out to catch his ride while leaving his computer in sleep mode. Jennifer, wakes up two hours later, and realizes that the computer is in sleep mode, and Johnny receives a message from a young lady that states, “can’t wait for us to spend a week in Boston together!” Jennifer, in disbelief calls a divorce attorney, and screenshots all of the Facebook messages that are exchanged between her soon to be ex-husband. Jennifer wants to know what should she do with her mail since the house is a rental property, so first she must decide who is going to vacate the premises, her, or her estranged husband, Johnny, and if the landlord will allow the lease to be broken. I’m sure that the landlord can understand the process of divorce, but some want the lease to be honored. Jennifer Jones, is her maiden name, so when filling out a change of address, she needs to fill one out individually as Jennifer Doe, and then fill out a change of address in her maiden name individually as Jennifer Jones, because if she checks entire family then Johnny Doe’s mail will be also coming to her new address. Jennifer needs to contact the Social Security Office to fill out the appropriate paperwork to get her maiden name back, as well as changing her driver’s license as well. Anything that she orders auto-ship she needs to contact the logistics provider to inform them of the immediate changes. Jennifer, must also contact her credit card companies in the event that a credit card is sent to her old address, and the ex-husband doesn’t want to return the item. Getting a divorce, and going back to your maiden name!

The numbers game of duplexes. For those who are curious, duplexes are single family homes, that can be classified as townhomes, that are normally a property, or a house that has been renovated to share two different addresses on the same property. For example 5240 Littlberry Dr., and 5242 Littleberry Dr., are duplexes, on the same lot, but have different doors, and their own separate garages, some duplexes can also have the distinction of being divided by a 1/2, so 5240 Littleberry Dr., and the residence on the same lot could be 5240 1/2 Littleberry Dr., the problem quite often when deliveries are being made to duplexes are if they don’t have numbers on them, and they don’t have names inside of the mailboxes then a misdelivery can easily occur, because if it’s someone new who is delivering mail, or packages, and they’re unfamiliar with duplexes, they could easily think that they’re the same address, when infact, they have two different owners, and if they have ever had some type of dispute between them, they will hardly give a misdelivered package to their next door neighbor, but having a properly viewable address can make the owners life so much easier when receiving mail, and packages. We have to remember that the Amazon, FedEx, UPS, DHL drivers don’t necessarily come everyday like the Postal Carrier, and if there’s a high turnover rate in people moving in, and out of duplexes this can make your job even more difficult. If you’re expecting a package, and the sun is starting to disappear leave a porch light on so that the driver can see, if you have a secure area where a package can be hidden, and not seen from the street, it would help to leave a note that the delivery person can see that simply says, “deliveries here!” The numbers game of duplexes. www.iwantmymail.com

No mailbox, no curtains, no mail. Sounds like a bold statement, but it really isn’t, it’s the world that we live in everyday in the world of delivery of mail, and receiving packages. Normally landlords who deal with a lot of tenants will keep an updated list of residents who stay on their property. It’s smart business, because staying up to date with your residents can reduce a significant amount of misdeliveries, as well as parcels being at houses that don’t have a mailbox at the residence. Why doesn’t the house have a mailbox, and why doesn’t it have curtains? If you see all of these obstacles, such as no mailbox at the residence, or mail that was left on the floor, and the weather has disfigured the mail, and now there isn’t a recipient because the rain has smeared the ink on the letter, and in the case of a package, if it was left to where rain can get to it, the ink has smeared the tenant’s name who previously lived at the house, so now you can’t identify who the package was addressed to. Normally if a resident has moved out of a house via a real estate sale, or if the house was a rental property, there will be no curtains left in the windows, and if you as delivery merchant pull up to a house, and see this, the common sense factor should kick in to tell you that the house is no longer occupied, it’s vacant, or if you see a name that you haven’t seen before, and there’s a U-Haul truck, or moving truck parked outside, then chances are you could meet the new resident, who has assumed ownership of the property. If you happen to deliver mail, and the mailbox is stuffed, chances are no one is living at the residence, unless the person who lives there travels for 3 weeks out of a month, and in that case, they should make proper arrangements with the Postal Service to hold their mail, and packages until they return, but if there’s no mailbox, no curtains, on the house, then there shouldn’t be any mail, or packages left at the residence, because the house is essentially vacant. www.iwantmymail.com

Does your privacy matter over your packages? Tom, is the owner, and landlord of an multi-tenant unit, which has 8 residents who pay to live at his residence. Tom does all of the maintenance, and he also lives on the property, during the colder months in Seattle, Washington. He uses an alphabet system for each unit that a tenant resides in, and he has their last name by the apartment number, for example, Smith #A, but none of the tenant doors have the alphabet by it so that you can identify who lives there in the event that a package requires a signature, so if there isn’t a way for the logistics driver to know where you live then you can’t be angry if they leave a notification on your mailbox because they have no other option, but to leave the notice instead of putting a notice on the wrong door, and your package gets returned that you paid extra to expedite the shipping for because it could be a book that you need to read to turn in an assignment in three days, and etc. If a package is left in a general area where there is foot traffic then the package has a greater chance of being stolen, but a security system will often deter a thief from stealing your package if they know that they could possibly be arrested for being a porch pirate. Tom, stated that his residents love his protection of their privacy, but at the same time customers who live there are angry that they can’t receive a package when they’re at home, because their doors don’t have alphabet numbers to identify who live at their residence. Many complain that they don’t have time to go to a UPS location, FedEx location, USPS facility, and etc., so the question is does your privacy matter over your packages? www.iwantmymail.com

Identifying your address can help you with your mail, and packages. An address is what identifies where you live, numbers are important in helping a delivery merchant deliver mail to your home as well as packages. Numbers stand out because it’s what the UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL,and USPS carrier will look for when they pull in front of your house to deliver your items that you have ordered off of the Internet. Normally one of the first things that the driver, or letter carrier will do when getting out of their vehicle is to look at your house to see if you have a number to identify your address, normally gold numbers stand out, or it could be the number on the brick of your house with your address on it, if there aren’t any numbers on your house, then the driver will normally walk out to the street to see if the number to your house is painted on the sidewalk such as 3323 Comfort Drive, or if the house across the street is 3324 Comfort Drive, then more than likely the house across the street will be just the opposite, but don’t be fooled by this, because all houses that are directly across from each other might not necessarily match up, so you might have to use common sense, and use the doormat on the house to match up the parcel with the owner of the house, sometimes customers will have their last name on a mat in front of the door of their house, so the last name Anderson will match the name with the address to help you to deliver the package.
What can be done to help with identifying your address so that it can help the delivery merchant with delivering your mail, and packages? Have visible numbers on your house, have your last name inside of your mailbox on your porch, this will help, your last name with your home address, so if the delivery merchant is confused, they can lift the lid, and see your name, and address, and if they’re on the wrong porch, this will help to prevent the driver from leaving the wrong package at your address, although we’re human, and if a misdelivery happens, and your neighbor is next door, they will appreciate if you bring it to their house when they’re at home, leaving it overnight, and writing not at this address will aid a porch pirate in stealing your neighbor’s package. Identifying your address can help you with your mail, and packages. www.iwantmymail.com

The matrix of the apartment complex, and the delivery of your packages. Let’s face it, all apartment complexes are different in their very own unique special way, but there’s one thing in common amongst all apartment complexes, people occupy them, and people love to shop on the internet from the comfort of their home instead of going to the mall, although people still want the experience of going into the mall, and trying on a sneaker, or in the case of women, trying on a dress to see if it fits right instead of ordering a dress over the internet, and it doesn’t fit right to avoid the hassle of having to send it back in a return envelope. The issue with a lot of apartment complexes when they don’t consult with the Postal Service with their layout is numbers tend to jump around in apartment complexes, and in the case of FedEx, UPS, Amazon, and other logistical carriers, employees don’t have a lot of time going on a scavenger hunt looking for apartment 102, when it should be next door to apartment 101, and apartment 103, but the owner of the apartment complex has apartment 101 next door to apartment 112, also visibility can be a problem with time change, if the numbers on apartments are hard to read during the day, then they will almost be impossible to read at night, and the logistical provider will scan the item as being attempted when you might be at home.
This is a short list of things that can cause problems with a package being delivered to your apartment, you have your door covered up, and your apartment number isn’t visible on your door, so this could cause your package to be misdelivered. Numbers on the doors are hard to read during the day will be almost impossible to see at night, or when a time change occurs, or your apartment complex decides to change the gate code without notifying logistical providers will delay the delivery of your package, because normally the logistics companies will not wait 10 minutes for a car, or truck to come out of the gate to deliver a package, when they might have 250 more deliveries to make, and they’re on a time schedule. The matrix of the apartment complex, and the delivery of your packages. www.iwantmymail.com

The communication factor in the world of mail, and packages. Communication is extremely important in anything that we may do in life, if we don’t communicate then people will tend to tell you that they didn’t know that if they didn’t put any gas in the car that the car wouldn’t be able to make it back home when the gas light was on, and etc., the same can be said about your mail, and packages. If you travel for a living, and your job has you out of town for 3 weeks out of the month, and you order a package online that requires a signature, and the package clearly states that after 5 business days of being unclaimed to return the item to the merchant, then you’ll be very lucky if the package that you ordered will be at the logistics provider that you ordered the item from. If you haven’t met your letter carrier, UPS driver, FedEx driver, and etc., it wouldn’t be a bad idea to introduce yourself, and inform them that you travel for a living, and try to see if you can get communication established in the event that you might have a package coming in while you will be out of town. If you will be out of town for an extended period of time the hold mail form with the Postal Service is a smart option, because your mailbox will not be stuffed, and your mail will be waiting on you when you return from out of town, if you don’t put in a hold mail request, and your box is full, normally your letter carrier will pull your box, and notify you that your mail will be returned in 10 days if you don’t communicate to let them know that you have returned from out of town. A simple hello can go a long way in the world of mail, and packages, especially if you have just moved into a new residence, and putting your name in your mailbox can make your world a lot easier in the world of mail, and packages, because it establishes that you now live at this residence, and you have uniquely identified that you now occupy this residence, just the same way that an internet protocol address identifies who you are. The communication factor in the world of mail, and packages. www.iwantmymail.com

No name, no mail, the revolving door of the apartment! Many people look at an apartment as a stepping stone to buying a home in the future, it could be a place of residence after you decide to move out of your parents house after graduating from high school, or for a person who has finished their obligated service in the military, or etc. The key thing to moving into an apartment is finding out where your mailbox is, and making sure that you put a label inside of your box that has your last name, and your apartment number as well. If your last name is Smith for example, it might be wise to put your first name as well, because there could be 5 additional people with the last name of Smith living in the same apartment complex, so you could write Michael Smith on your label with your apartment number in the event that you order an item, and you accidentally forget to include your apartment number on the item, so your name could help the logistics provider uniquely identify who you are with the assistance of the apartment office, a first name could cause problems if you just enter Jason, and you don’t enter a apartment number, and there happens to be 10 other individuals living in the Beltway Green Luxury Apartments with the same name as Jason, then it becomes a guessing game, and more than likely your apartment complex will tell the logistics provider to return the item, unless you have a cell phone number on the box, that could lead to the office to call to identify who you are.
It’s important to read the information at the mail center if the Postal employee leaves a note that says, no name, no mail, so if they’re asking for a name in your mailbox, it’s better to comply rather than have your mail returned, it could be an income tax refund, or a check from your parents to help with your rent, or a birthday card, pay attention to detail. No name, no mail, the revolving door of the apartment! www.iwantmymail.com

Having credit cards mailed to your home for employees. Why would an employer do this? The best solution for a problem like this would be to have the cards sent to your place of employment, unless you have trust issues with receiving mail at your place of employment. Normally for security purposes, credit card companies will need unique information about the individual, who will be receiving a credit card from the merchant such as date of birth, social security number, your home address, and the ability to answer three security questions to correctly identify, and authenticate your account in the event that your card becomes compromised, lost, stolen, or falls into the hands of a hacker in the event of a security breach. You own a company that is a medical consulting company called Top Med Consulting, inside of your mailbox you have your name, Dr. Tim Harris, M.D., and your girlfriend also lives with you by the name of Bria Thompson, so on your mailbox label you include your last names of Harris, Thompson, and the name of your medical consulting company, and you specify that no other names receives mail at this address, but the credit cards that you ordered for your employees arrive and in the names of Samantha Simpson, and Riley Thomas, if you don’t update your list of names inside of your mailbox, you could run into a problem such as their mail being returned to the sender, because the letter carrier is trying their best to follow the names that you have inside of your box, who receive mail at your address. In the event that one of the employees decides to leave the company for another opportunity will you remember to close out the credit card, because if you forget, and the employee is disgruntled they could potentially run up charges on the card that you authorized for them to have because you established with the credit card that your home of record was where the credit card bills were to be sent. Remember, having credit cards mailed to your home for employees could be a gamble like Las Vegas, you could crap out. www.iwantmymail.com