Not as far as I can see.
I had never heard of such a thing. Live and learn!
When DesertWife and I moved to Carson City we lived for a few months in a small apartment complex – eight units – while we were looking for a place to buy. A lot of people moved in and out all of the time and nobody had been there for as long as a year; we lasted about six months.
As a consequence we got a lot of mail for the previous inhabitants, mostly junk mail which we’d toss or if something was first-class and looked like it might be important would write Not at this address on it and drop it off at the post office. Curious, we started writing the names down on a list and it grew to about two-dozen.
One Saturday morning there was a knock at the door and it was two deputies who were looking for somebody. “Nope, not here; wait a second,” and I fetched the list. “We’ve never gotten any mail for them. Either they gave a fake address or it’s been a long time since they lived here.” They thanked me and left.
We’ve been at this address a decade and still get the occasional owner here, almost all junk mail by this time.
It’s worth remembering the OP has problems w both UPS and USPS. Very different internal procedures and very different laws apply to each.
USPS is contracted at money-losing prices (guess who arranged that) to perform last-mile delivery for some, not all, UPS packages. I do not know if those deliveries fall under USPS mail laws or not.
Bottom line: there are two distinct problems here needing two distinct but perhaps similar solutions.
What mail?
I don’t remember getting any mail.
Tee hee!
They should do what they’ve already reported they are doing - returning the misdelivered mail to the USPS. They’re just now covering up the address so it doesn’t show up back in their mailbox again.
I always thought “return to sender” was a joke, part of a song, a trope.
I didn’t know it was real.
Ding, ding, ding, wake up beck.
And, from the OP, attempts to get the other party to stop using the incorrect address have apparently been ignored.
I read, online(sorry), if you use the “official postal code: ANK” if gives folks at the sorting locations specific instructions.
- It means “attempted, not known”
I think you read it wrong-You don’t put “ANK” on the mail, they do when they can’t deliver it.