As many of you may already know, I have a number of scientific and medical theories that I have been trying to share with people for about 20 years now, if not more.
Anyways, I like using the US mail to share it sometimes. Why not? But I have noticed a lot of them have been returned to me. And it sometimes for the stupidest of reasons. A letter is off, a number, maybe I didn’t specify the suite, maybe the person has moved to the next floor. You get the picture.
So I bought this stamp from Amazon that says ‘Address Service Requested’. I have no idea what that means. But if it means what I suspect it does, it might help the situation, I think.
In any event, I was at the post office yesterday, getting stamps. And I asked the lady at the window what ‘Address Service Requested’ means. She had no idea, which seems rather odd.
Do any of you know what it means, specifically? I assumed it meant they will try to forward your mail for you, if necessary. But after that postal employee’s negative or blank response, now I am not sure.
ACS is an enhancement to the existing manual address correction process provided with the use of Ancillary Service endorsements on all mail classes except Periodicals. The following ancillary services are available for use with ACS on First-Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, Package Services, and Parcel Select:
Address Service Requested provides forwarding and address correction services when possible. If the mail is undeliverable and not forwardable, it is returned to the sender with the reason identified on the mailpiece.
Change Service Requested provides address correction services without forwarding or return. If undeliverable, either the new address or the reason it is undeliverable is provided to the sender.
Return Service Requested provides address correction services and always returns the piece.
running_coach nailed it, but I’m going to throw in that I believe Return Service Requested will charge the sender another first class postage cost for returning the piece.
Maybe when people see yet another spam letter arriving from this guy with a weird theory, they write on it ‘Recipient Unknown’ and send it back in an attempt to discourage him.
I’m pretty sure that Enjoy_Slurm is capable of searching for threads you’ve started. He was trying to have a little fun with you by drawing you out.
I’m more interested in why you think letter-writing is a more effective way of communicating your theories than, say, setting up a website or self-publishing a book. Have you ever received a reply to any of these letters you’ve sent?
@erysichthon I’ve received a couple of replies. And they were usually positive. I do post on the internet, as already noted. I still like the USPS though. It seems to have more permanency to me. Plus if the person I send it to has a bee in their bonnet about something, what are they going to do? Cancel my mail?
I rarely or never give people just cause to get upset. But you’d be surprised what gets people up in arms on the internet. And ironically as has been recently noted in the news, with some recent events, the First Amendment doesn’t apply to the private sector (‘Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment…’).
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