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  2. The life-upending flaw that USPS won't fix | TechCrunch

    techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/us-postal-service...

    The independent watchdog that oversees the postal service, the USPS Office of Inspector General (or USPS OIG), has raised concerns about change of address fraud for years. USPS OIG said in its ...

  3. National Change of Address - Wikipedia

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    National Change of Address. National Change of Address (NCOALink) "is a secure dataset of approximately 160 million permanent change-of-address (COA) records consisting of the names and addresses of individuals, families and businesses who have filed a change-of-address with the USPS". [ 1] It is maintained by the United States Postal Service ...

  4. Locatable Address Conversion System - Wikipedia

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    Locatable Address Conversion System (LACS) is a service offered by the United States Postal Service to update mailing addresses when a street is renamed or the address is updated for 911. In the case of 911, the address is changed from a rural route format to an urban/city route format. E.G. RR 2 BOX 8, SOME CITY, TX would become 2601 BELMONT ...

  5. Lawmakers call on USPS to combat surge in 'change of address ...

    techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/lawmakers-bipartisan...

    The post office’s watchdog, the USPS’ inspector general, recorded more than 23,000 cases in 2021 where someone had fraudulently filed a change of address request with USPS.

  6. Postal address verification - Wikipedia

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    Postal address verification (also known as address , address validation, address verification and CASS certification [ 1]) is the process used to check the validity and deliverability of a physical mailing address. According to the United States Postal Service, an address is valid (or mailable) if it is CASS-certified, meaning that it exists ...

  7. USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta ... - TechCrunch

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    The U.S. Postal Service was sharing the postal addresses of its online customers with advertising and tech giants Meta, LinkedIn and Snap, TechCrunch has found. On Wednesday, the USPS said it ...

  8. Nixie (postal) - Wikipedia

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    More recently, the USPS National Change Of Address (NCOA) Service provided data to mailers with scoring on how close a match the name and address are to something actually forwardable or deliverable, which were referred to as "Nixie Codes". The USPS distinguishes a Nixie from other address errors in that the mail piece is always returned to the ...

  9. Scam Alert: Beware of 'Change My Address' Sites - AOL

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    Alamy By Herb Weisbaum It's one of the million little things you need to do when you move -- contact the postal service to change your mailing address. Here's where the problem can occur: Many ...