I had to update my address on my driver’s license and they needed a couple pieces of mail with my new address and name on it to verify but I hadn’t gotten any mail at the new place yet.
Then I started thinking about it more and realized I haven’t actually received a letter addressed specifically to me in over a year, possibly in over 3 years. I have everything set to send by email because it isn’t 1950 anymore. Am I just a loser with no corporate pen pals or is physical mail an antiquated form of address verification now?
Seems fairly outdated to me, but also completely inadequate. I’ve lived in my current spot for almost 3 years now, and I still routinely receive bills sent to a prior resident. Not even the most recent prior resident either, but someone who hadn’t lived here in a decade or more, and somehow the utility company doesn’t know that he’s not gonna pay that bill they’re sending him, even when I’m paying the same damn company for utilities at the same address.
Oh man, when I first moved into the new apartment, I was getting mail for like 5 different people and then 4 times in a week I got mail that wasn’t even for my apartment, one of them wasn’t even for my building.
We still get letters occasionally for people that lived here in the 90s. And haven’t since then. It’s wild.