MUST HAVE Tool (USPS Informed) *Free Signup

[tkdwls0131 20]

I was with Visa Journey for about a year and I am starting another USCIS Application. During that year of waiting, it was really hard to be patient! It makes us all impatient because USCIS is very slow with their Electronic Notification System and online status check website. As we know, USCIS sends out documents without any notice. We just have to keep waiting for that mail to come. 

 

So here is a solution. It is called informed delivery. I know many of you already signed up for the package version*
*When a package with USPS tracking number that is related to your address, the tracking automatically shows on the MYUSPS account. It is a great tool to track your GC before it rings up on the USCIS status check website.

 

But that is not all. Recently (I signed up about two weeks ago), they start to have Mail Dashboard. 
Mail Dashboard allows people to see what mail comes in every day. The mails are scanned and sent out in the email notification to see what mails you will get on that day. 

 

It is a great tool to sign up because you do not have to stalk mailman every day.

 

https://my.usps.com/mobileWeb/pages/intro/start.action

 

 

[geowrian 22,337]

Thanks for sharing! I'm one of the solution architects that developed this over the past couple years. Look forward to some significant updates in the coming months.

Edited May 17, 2017 by geowrian

[Sol1427 23]

Thanks so much, I will do that today as I'm at the NVC stage now

[Ksenia_O 696]

Great! I'll be June 2017 ROC filer and I find your info so helpful!! just signed up Thank you so much!!!

[broppy 204]

Excellent! I discovered this a few months ago, but it was only available in a few locations (not mine, of course). I guess they've finally rolled it out nation wide.

[geowrian 22,337]

Just now, broppy said:

Excellent! I discovered this a few months ago, but it was only available in a few locations (not mine, of course). I guess they've finally rolled it out nation wide.

Yup! A little less than a month ago we started releasing nationwide. Most residential buildings (besides certain types of apartments, split homes, etc.) should be eligible now.

[Ketsuban 1,034]

Thank you, I signed up just now.

[Lemon23 400]

I had this activated yesterday and I'm getting email notification of all my incoming mails and packages.

[broppy 204]

 

37 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Thanks for sharing! I'm one of the solution architects that developed this over the past couple years. Look forward to some significant updates in the coming months.

I know what I'd like to see - a notification after the mail's been delivered so I know when to go empty the box. That and some way to reduce the level of bulk mail and flats - I'd happily settle for a single daily email with pictures if it meant I didn't have to move all the junk from the mailbox straight to the recycling every day.

[geowrian 22,337]

8 minutes ago, broppy said:

I know what I'd like to see - a notification after the mail's been delivered so I know when to go empty the box. That and some way to reduce the level of bulk mail and flats - I'd happily settle for a single daily email with pictures if it meant I didn't have to move all the junk from the mailbox straight to the recycling every day.

I hear ya. haha Trust me, we have mentioned the idea of alerts when mail actually arrives...there's just some technical (and likely non-technical that I cannot discuss) hurdles doing it on the largest ground force within the US.

 

As for the bulk mail and flats, I don't foresee that changing as that's a large potion of the revenue-generating business model. I have no real/official info on that topic, but it'd be a tough sell to those business customers to allow residents to opt out of actually delivering certain types of mail.

Edited May 17, 2017 by geowrian

[broppy 204]

17 minutes ago, geowrian said:

I hear ya. haha Trust me, we have mentioned the idea of alerts when mail actually arrives...there's just some technical (and likely non-technical that I cannot discuss) hurdles doing it on the largest ground force within the US.

Oh well. I guess I can try making my mailman nervous with a wifi enabled mailbox.

[mindthegap 2,590]

1 hour ago, geowrian said:

Yup! A little less than a month ago we started releasing nationwide. Most residential buildings (besides certain types of apartments, split homes, etc.) should be eligible now.

 

Certain types of apartments? 

[geowrian 22,337]

15 minutes ago, mindthegap said:

Certain types of apartments? 

Yeah. Mail isn't really routed to a person. It's only routed to an address (ZIP11) and then the mail courier actually associates it to the mailbox. In some apartments, each unit has its own unique address so each mailbox has its own ZIP11. In others, there is one address with multiple boxes for the different units at that address. An automated system doesn't know how to separate what mail belongs to 2 different people/units at the same physical address, so they are not enabled for this (or else you would see all of your neighbor's mail/packages).

Edited May 17, 2017 by geowrian

[tkdwls0131 20]

37 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Yeah. Mail isn't really routed to a person. It's only routed to an address (ZIP11) and then the mail courier actually associates it to the mailbox. In some apartments, each unit has its own unique address so each mailbox has its own ZIP11. In others, there is one address with multiple boxes for the different units at that address. An automated system doesn't know how to separate what mail belongs to 2 different people/units at the same physical address, so they are not enabled for this (or else you would see all of your neighbor's mail/packages).

I live in the apt ( 4 floors and each floor has 4 units) and the system works great. Unlike UPS ir FedEx, USPS acts upon the adress rather than individual person. Which I feel better than signing up each for my wife and my self. 

[geowrian 22,337]

3 minutes ago, tkdwls0131 said:

I live in the apt ( 4 floors and each floor has 4 units) and the system works great. Unlike UPS ir FedEx, USPS acts upon the adress rather than individual person. Which I feel better than signing up each for my wife and my self. 

Cool. Yeah, there's pros and cons to each. I live in an apartment as well and it works fine for me, but my coworker (also one of the lead devs for Informed Delivery) doesn't qualify at his address since the actual address is shared among him and a neighbor (there are still 2 separate mailboxes).