What do people do if their address is burned?

[flexi]

Why even pay for a P.O. box?
Just do a general delivery and claim you don't have a permanent address. Nobody working at USPS has never tried to verify my living situation, they only verify the name on the ID.
If you are truly "burned", use a fake name and fake ID.
When ordering, input your name, “General Delivery” as the address, then the city/town, state, zip. Pick it up at the post office it is kept at in the tracking.

 

[Photon]

Why even pay for a P.O. box?
Just do a general delivery and claim you don't have a permanent address. Nobody working at USPS has never tried to verify my living situation, they only verify the name on the ID.
If you are truly "burned", use a fake name and fake ID.
When ordering, input your name, “General Delivery” as the address, then the city/town, state, zip. Pick it up at the post office it is kept at in the tracking.

It doesn't work in all states.
Not all couriers will do this.
To pick up u need an ID.

 

[flexi]

It doesn't work in all states.
Not all couriers will do this.
To pick up u need an ID.

It does work in all states, what states are you claiming the USPS won't do this in?
Also, if you don't know the courier will be USPS or you know it wont, change delivery to pickup. All major couriers have the same concept without paying for a box. UPS has delivery intercept to change delivery to "hold at a UPS location" and FedEx allows changing delivery to "Hold at Location".
As I mentioned, you can use a fake name and ID for general delivery, if that is an issue, they aren't running socials... You need an ID for a PO box anyway.

 

[adrenalytic]

i moved into my house x amount of years ago and no matter what i try, i can not get them to stop mailing me the previous owners mail. from the post office all they way down the carrier, there is literally no option i have found from keeping their mail from my box.

previous owner had passed away around Covid and is hasn’t stopped a thing.

i’ve thought about just going with it and addressing all my packs to John Q Previous, which would undoubtedly work, but it’s never been an issue.

You might have to contact the sender of each individual piece of mail and inform them the person is dead. I had to do this with my parents as they are both deceased and I inherited their house. It takes a little effort but the mailings will stop or at least be very infrequent.