No mail receptacle?
Archive: Online bookselling
Is there a psychiatric word for inability to provide correct address?
Took many packages are coming back because the person put on the wrong zip code, left out an apartment number, hadn't changed their recorded data at a book listing site after they moved across the country or can't type correctly.
Most recently and cryptically we got a package back stamped “no mail receptacle.”
Er, what th-$#@!?
2 · Posted by: Steven on July 13, 2004 03:51 PM
A good place to check/standardize an address is at the USPS zip code lookup page (http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.htm/)
I have found it to be pretty reliable. The greatest problems I have had are not with rural routes but with student dorm addresses. They either do not know their mailing address there or the university provides them with a non-standard address. Probably only one out of every 5 or 6 colleges has useful and accurate mailing address information. I find that MapQuest is a useful supplement to the USPS site for checking addresses. Also, you can speed up even media mail deliveries by using the full zip+4 zip code.
Steven
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1 · Posted by: Phil on March 19, 2004 03:01 AM
My pet peeve? TRY explaining to a city boy or even a small town boy these days that an RR # Box # is not a Post Office box but an actual location of a mailbox outside a house. We don't have a 911 system with street names yet and many a bookseller has lost a sale because they want my street address. I am very close to replying “we have no streets you moron but do have a couple good fields with cow manure spread. You can relate can't you?” It would be a pleasure to have them slam down the phone instead of me.