MESA, Ariz. — Tony Palmer and his wife know the importance of checking their mail every day.
When they moved recently, they also realized the importance of changing their mailing address with the The U.S. Postal Service.
Palmer thought doing that would be easy on the Internet.
“It’s the kind of thing that just about everything in your life is involved with that computer,” Palmer explained to 3 On Your Side.
So, Palmer went online and put in “how to change your mailing address” in a search engine.
That’s when he came across a link that Palmer thought was affiliated with the U.S. Postal Service. It was called Address Change Assistant.
“So, I click on it thinking it’s a speed link into the address change page,” Palmer said.
Palmer filled in all the necessary spaces and realized it was going to cost $29.95 to change his information and it was going to cost an additional $29.95 to change his wife’s information since she frequently uses her maiden name.
We should do what the rest of the world does….charge a fee to change an address and an additional cost for each piece forwarded. That would get people off their arses and contact their senders, instead of relying on a free service for one year. $25.00 for a COA and $5.00 for each piece forwarded. That would help the USPS deficit. FedEx and UPS charge for this service, so the post office should, too.
there should be a $50.00 fee to forward your mail and all the boxes we give away for free and ship them to you what joke give it all away
PO should charge $2.50 for a change and $2.50 per month for up to 18 months to forward.
My local Post Office would not let me fill out a change of address – They told me I had to do it on-line.
$1.00 charge – not high but I did not want to give out credit card info.
LOL what a dumb ass!! Who with any miniscule amount of intelligence wouldn’t know to go to usps.com and type in change of address? But this schmuck GOOGLES IT?? What a moron….or as Bugs Bunny says….”hehehe what a marooon…….”
Some people don’t know how or even what the old fashioned way is. If you have kids, see if they know how to write a letter to their congressional representatives. Ask them how much a stamp costs. They will most likely say: wht r u talkn @
jackie is not to bright!
Just inform your bank, credit cards companies, utility companies, DMV, do it online, that’s it, simple and easy. Everything is online, no paper, going green, love our earth.
Really???? Common sense didn’t kick in when they wanted to charge you? Never do anything that is this important online, do it the old fashioned way and have a paper trail.
You got off LUCKY! I’m sure a charge of $29.95 (or more) would have been paid by credit card…so the scammers would have had that info to really make you pay for an innocent mistake!
This is just the tip of the iceberg that privatizing the Postal Service would represent. Wise up America.