Allie asks: “Not returning to sender help! Lots of tax documents and other mail from USPS that’s for several other people who no longer live at our address. Advice for “returning to sender” successfully?”
Some early suggestions: (more…)
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Elise writes:
“Any DC folks out there whose tax documents have gone missing in the mail? Two different tax docs came for me while I was on work travel but neither is in the pile of mail neighbors brought in for me. Feeling pretty stressed out about compromised info.
PSA for anyone else worried about fraud after tax docs went missing:
Just got off the phone with someone at SSA who instructed me to file a report w/ the Office of the Inspector General. Call 1-800-269-0271 10a to 4p M-F or file online here.”
In other fraud tips “Important information if you received unemployment tax forms but didn’t file for unemployment benefits”:
“Call DOES at 877-FRAUD-60 if you received a 1099-G Tax Form and did not file for unemployment benefits. DOES will flag the potentially fraudulent unemployment claim for investigation and will directly notify the IRS of any necessary changes to the tax form.”
Jennifer asks: “Are folks in #KingmanPark getting mail?? Haven’t received mail all week” but have also heard reports from other parts of town still not getting mail. Have you gotten any recently?
Thanks to Hilary for sending: “Just had this gem returned by USPS today (12/29/2021). Card was mailed in December of 2020. I’m not sure where the mold came from, but the Georgia Ave. post office feels like a likely culprit. Feels like it had the 2021 we all did.”
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“Dear PoPville,
I live in Navy Yard, and found an envelope in my mail from Veterans Affairs addressed to someone in Wisconsin (photo attached). I just dropped it back in the outgoing mail slot (it was prepaid postage), but I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced such egregiously misdelivered mail?”
“Dear PoPville,
My letter carrier has taken to hanging my mail on my fence which causes it to fall all over the public sidewalk and get lost, stolen, or blown away. My mail slot is in my door, and for the past decade I’ve lived in this house no letter carrier has ever had any trouble delivering the mail. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Here’s a new one. I’m used to having my card number skimmed at various places but this situation takes the cake. I’ve been waiting for a new credit card to arrive in the mail but never got it. Yesterday I received a notification that a purchase at the Sunoco two blocks from me (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Does the US Postal Service have a new policy on how we close envelopes? I was at the US Post Office on 14th Street waiting in line and I realized one of my card was not sealed. So since I was already in line, I licked it closed.
The postal worker saw me and yelled across the room – you can’t do that. I’m not going to accept that envelope.
When it was my turn I asked the staff how long I would have to wait before coming back to send the card. She said she would not accept a locked envelope and I could buy a new envelope. Her coworker added that I had to use a “blue glue stick”. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Since Covid, all package deliveries are left in the lobby of our building, located in the 500 block of M St, SE. However, this morning I was surprised to see an actual pile of packages – eight in total.
As I looked through them for any for our company, I realized NONE were for our address. (more…)
Ash sends us this:
“Mail delivered on October 20, 2021 from well over a year ago.”
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