USPS Mail Forwarding (?)

mercurial333 · #1 08-10-2011

Need a bit of help with this. I only ship USPS.

The person lives at 5000 W Street. The Ebay/Paypal account is at 3000 W Street.

If i forward the mail from 3000W Street to 1000W Street will the person still receive his regular mail at 5000W Street where he resides?

I have access to 1000W Street, but not 5000W or 3000W. This would be in case of buyer returns.

ovidiu · #2 08-10-2011

What are you trying to say, that the person you sold something to lives a few blocks from the ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address you used on your account?

NTP · #3 08-10-2011

That's what I gathered too. But also he his wanting to forward mail from the stealth address that is in a stealth name, to his real address.

I could be way off base but couldn't that be considered Mail Fraud?

mercurial333 · #4 08-10-2011

It's a real person, and I have all their info. It's a seller account, not a buyer account.

The person lives at A, however A is a previously suspended address.

Address B is a random address which I put in Paypal/Ebay, C will be an address I will have access to.

I know I could forward from B ( this is the ebay/paypal address) to A where the person resides, however I don't want to bother them with packages, returns, especially since I will be buying a bunch of crap in the first months to build feedback.

However I wanted to know if I could forward from B to C where I have access to, but I don't want the persons regular mail he receives at A to be forwarded to me. That's what I wanted to know, if they will still receive regular mail at address A.

ovidiu · #5 08-10-2011

Holy cr*p you really jumped into a weird situation here.

Couple things to bear in mind with USPS:

You will need to provide ID at the counter to do mail forwarding, or provide a credit card online to do it with their online form (I assume gift cards will work for this)

Mail forwarding isn't permanent.

If you mail from A to B (for example), and B can't get it, USPS will return the mail to A, assuming your return address is on there, for free. But it could take a couple weeks.

I believe you can send mail to the local post office with a request that it be forwarded to an address. Not sure if that would help. This gets the local post code stamped on the letter/package regardless of where it really came from.

mercurial333 · #6 08-10-2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by ovidiu

Holy cr*p you really jumped into a weird situation here.

Couple things to bear in mind with USPS:

You will need to provide ID at the counter to do mail forwarding, or provide a credit card online to do it with their online form (I assume gift cards will work for this)

Mail forwarding isn't permanent.

If you mail from A to B (for example), and B can't get it, USPS will return the mail to A, assuming your return address is on there, for free. But it could take a couple weeks.

I believe you can send mail to the local post office with a request that it be forwarded to an address. Not sure if that would help. This gets the local post code stamped on the letter/package regardless of where it really came from.

Well these are all relatives of my wife. Last time she sent a letter to USPS, confirming that she was the authorized person to forward the mail. But that time was a different situation as I just had to forward from A to B ( not to mention the address number was next to each other, probably wasn't even necessary to forward but I figured better be safe )

This situation this time is a bit different. Since I have to forward from B to C, but I need the person that lives at address A to still receive their regular mail at address A. I only need the packages/mail forwarded from B to C.

It's a bit confusing I know, maybe somebody will figure it out what I meant

All this has not been done yet, as I'm trying to gather opinions first.

Chime in people, don't shy away

KingRay · #7 08-10-2011

They will get their mail still if you fill out the forwarding paperwork in just your name.

It would be no different if 4 different roomates lived at one address. One moves and has his mail forwarded. The other 3 people would still get their mail. only the person that forwarded with have the change.

Am I on the right track here or not.?

The problem is that ALL of your mail will be forwarded, not just pkgs. There is no way that I know of for this to work any other way. sounds like you need to just get a po box and go that route.