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[geowrian 22,337]

1 minute ago, mindthegap said:

Ok...did the verification ok (spooky!) and it worked for a couple of packages, but did not work for letters/other mail, and I can't see any option for it.

 

What am I missing?

Did you opt-in to Informed Delivery too? https://reg.usps.com/preferences

 

If you just signed up, it may take a day or two for data to start coming in (depending on when exactly you signed up).

[cdneh 3,112]

This is totally cool I had an email this morning, with pictures of today's mail, for all of us here. I've been kidding my husband I have new psychic powers...'today I will get a letter from Canada, and you will get the bill for the car insurance'. You should have seen his face when all of that turned up in the letterbox. I may tell him....and then again...I may spin him a merry dance for a while

So far not worked on packages, but it may in time.

Thank you for creating this little gem, and props to the OP for posting it !

[mindthegap 2,590]

4 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Did you opt-in to Informed Delivery too? https://reg.usps.com/preferences

 

Boom. No I hadn't- thanks.

Now opted in to that, so hopefully will start working.

[geowrian 22,337]

3 minutes ago, mindthegap said:

Boom. No I hadn't- thanks.

Now opted in to that, so hopefully will start working.

Cool! You likely won't get anything tomorrow since the cutoff time for that is passed (the actual image collection may even be underway by now!). But Thursday is likely, assuming you get image-able mail that day.

Edited May 24, 2017 by geowrian

[GazLisa 1,168]

DOnt get how it works at all ☹️☹️

[GazLisa 1,168]

On 18/05/2017 at 6:33 PM, Ketsuban said:

I've signed up, verified my identity and opted in to receiving daily emails, but I'm not getting any emails and the website says there is no mail. Then I go home to mail lol. I guess it's not working for my zip code.

Same here signed up for the service 2 days ago,still no emails and website says no mail delivered 🤔

[Scandi 4,173]

You have to go to "my preferences" and activate "informed delivery". Then when you go to "my usps" you can see the dashboards for mail and packages, and choose "package preferences" or "mail preferences". I had the same issue as you guys, after I had done all those steps it still didn't work for like a week or so. It works great now though. I get emails and can also see it all on my usps.

[Ketsuban 1,034]

8 hours ago, Gary JT said:

Same here signed up for the service 2 days ago,still no emails and website says no mail delivered 🤔

Mine randomly started working after a couple of days. Make sure you did what Scandi said to do and then just wait. You get an email every morning with scanned images of your mail and it's pretty cool. You even have the option to report if the mail never arrived in your mailbox.

[GazLisa 1,168]

On 28/05/2017 at 4:36 AM, Ketsuban said:

Mine randomly started working after a couple of days. Make sure you did what Scandi said to do and then just wait. You get an email every morning with scanned images of your mail and it's pretty cool. You even have the option to report if the mail never arrived in your mailbox.

App just started working 😀😀

[Jordan8768 107]

How can I verify? It wouldn't let me do it online even though I answered the questions correctly. It also says "have you received a verification code by mail?" 

 

Im just confused!! Thank you in advanced 

[Scandi 4,173]

44 minutes ago, Jordan8768 said:

How can I verify? It wouldn't let me do it online even though I answered the questions correctly. It also says "have you received a verification code by mail?" 

 

Im just confused!! Thank you in advanced 

I couldn't be verified either and my local post office had no idea about how any of this works. So I had my husband sign up, he's the USC and that worked perfectly. You only need one account anyway.

[Ksenia_O 696]

On 5/17/2017 at 11:11 AM, geowrian said:

 

Hi, 

I have a question and any inputs would be greatly appreciated.

 

Yesterday I learnt that USCIS did send my son's NOA1 and ACS appointments letters, along with mine, at the same days. But we have never received anything for him - only for me. And it's never happened before - during AOS all our USCIS Notices always were delivered together, envelope by envelope, at the same day, including our conditional green cards. 

 

Now we are at ROC stage, and our "reminder" letters have found us, no problem. But as I said before -  NOA1 and biometic appointment have never been delivered for my son. 

 

I have My USPS account. where I can see every mail/package , coming to our address. Yes, you know Again - son's USCIS letters have never showed up in My Mail Dashboard/Informed Delivery.  

 

A Tier 2 IO I spoke with yesterday told me, that there is a USPS "rule' or something - if a mail is from a government agency, but a Post Office can not indicate an individual lives at the address on the envelope, then that letter may not be delivered..

but again - we have never had this issue before...

 

The Post Office clerk, who knows our family, said they got new employees, and most likely, those new "girls" didn't indicate my son lives with us, so they sent his USCIS mails back... She also told me that she did something and now they will see we all live at that address.. 

 

So, should I do anything else to prevent this situation in future?.... Maybe, there is a form, on-line, I or my son would need to fill out?...

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

Edited July 12, 2017 by Ksenia_O

[Scandi 4,173]

1 hour ago, Ksenia_O said:

 

So, should I do anything else to prevent this situation in future?.... Maybe, there is a form, on-line, I or my son would need to fill out?...

 

Thank you.

 

There will always be substitutes and fill-in people, especially in summer during vacation times. Put both of your names on the mailbox so everyone can see.

[Ksenia_O 696]

1 hour ago, Scandi said:

There will always be substitutes and fill-in people, especially in summer during vacation times. Put both of your names on the mailbox so everyone can see.

Thank you. Yes, Will definitely change the sticker on our mail box. 

 

[geowrian 22,337]

Exactly as above. From what I'm told, the couriers treat certain types of mail (i.e. federal government agencies, voting mail, etc.) differently. Normally mail is only routed to an address - not a person. This type of mail has to go to an individual so there needs to be somebody that can recognize that the person lives there - either the mailman/mailwoman knows them there or (preferred) marking the name clearly on the mailbox. As surprising as it sounds, USPS doesn't have a whole lot of info on who lives where so much as mailpiece x goes to building y.