If you submit a change of address to the USPS, they sell that data to marketing companies. One workaround is to submit a 'temporary' address change for 6 months at a time instead.
The purpose of the function is to update any entity that legitimately has your name/address as to your new address. It's used by Magazine publishers to automatically update your subscription addresses. It's also used by companies you've done business with but might not have updated your address info such as a specialist doctor you visited once or your old insurance company.
I personally think that's of more value than stopping junk mailers from sending me personalized junk mail. You're going to get the junk mail either way.
No, screw that. 99% of people who get updated address via USPS are illegitimate.
If they think they're doing me a service, they're not.
Specialist doctors can just e-mail me. This is 2021. My physical address has changed at least 8 times in the past 2 decades. My e-mail address hasn't changed in that whole time.
I don't subscribe to magazines, and even if I did, you'd be sure as hell that I would update my address if I was paying for something.
> 99% of people who get updated address via USPS are illegitimate.
Is there any evidence to back that up or is that one of those "Feel Facts"?
So it's not beneficial to you but many people change their email address with greater frequency than they do their mailing address so your solution wouldn't work either.
USPS wasted huge money and the Union demands even bigger pensions, while USPS is losing market to commercial carriers at the same time in the open market.. no one is clean in that fight
