Snail mail/U.S. Mail, how often do you check your mailbox?

[tvguy]

Another informed delivery user.

I take the contents of the mail box and throw it all away nearly every day.

I might get something meaningful once a month.

You're young, and sound a lot like my wife. A lot of Medicare mail LOOKS like junk mail. The return address is CMS, not Medicare. If you go on Medicare before you go on Social Security, you have to set up auto pay. When you go on Social Security, they automatically take it out of your Social Security AND do the auto pay for the first month. My wife threw out a $185 refund check from that. Fortunately she did NOT tear it up as is her normal practice with junk mail. She also threw out a $450 check from an investment company that ran her employers 401k plan. She figured it was junk mail since she rolled everything out into an IRA a year before, but they found her last contribution and company match before retiring did not go into her account until after she rolled everything out.
And that same brokerage sent her six figure rollover in the form of a check. The do not do electronic transfer.

 

[barkley]

Not sure you can legislate that brick and mortar pharmacies stay open.

no but you can legislate that insurance companies can't require consumers use only mail order so that those who prefer to use brick and mortar as well as those who can't use mail order continue to utilize the brick and mortars that wish to stay open and have a customer base that if not prevented by their insurance would CONTINUE to use them (my local pharmacy has stuck it out since 1882). brick and mortars are essential when it comes to a prescription that's needed immediately (or at least sooner than the several days a week some of us face even with supposed 'overnight delivery').

 

[eticketplease]

Mail order pharmacies default to the U.S Postal Service, since they are the only delivery service required to deliver to every address in the nation.

Not quite accurate for every address but perhaps mailing address. There are many homes in rural areas that can have FedEX and UPS delivery to their home address but USPS requires them to rent a PO Box in town at the post office which is their mailing address but not physical address.

 

[barkley]

You're young, and sound a lot like my wife. A lot of Medicare mail LOOKS like junk mail. The return address is CMS, not Medicare. If you go on Medicare before you go on Social Security, you have to set up auto pay. When you go on Social Security, they automatically take it out of your Social Security AND do the auto pay for the first month. My wife threw out a $185 refund check from that. Fortunately she did NOT tear it up as is her normal practice with junk mail. She also threw out a $450 check from an investment company that ran her employers 401k plan. She figured it was junk mail since she rolled everything out into an IRA a year before, but they found her last contribution and company match before retiring did not go into her account until after she rolled everything out.
And that same brokerage sent her six figure rollover in the form of a check. The do not do electronic transfer.

we've had 2 important items resemble junk mail recnently-one was a yearly certification we have to do on our septic. this year the county changed from a letter to what looks like a junk postcard that refers you to the county website to access information/forms. one was a letter from a long forgotten employer notifying dh about some old pension funds on deposit with them but the envelope was pretty non descript-it was less than $50 but money is money. I at least eyeball stuff before I toss it.

btw-informed delivery must work better in some places than other. I hear lots of complaints about expecting something to be in the mailbox based on what informed delivery has reported for a given day only to not receive it.

 

[barkley]

Not quite accurate for every address but perhaps mailing address. There are many homes in rural areas that can have FedEX and UPS delivery to their home address but USPS requires them to rent a PO Box in town at the post office which is their mailing address but not physical address.

the local postmaster has repeated threatend neighborhoods including my own of ending delivery due to poorly maintained rural roads but I saw more people refused delivery in the non rural area I lived in within california due to carriers encountering unrestrained dogs.