Has anyone signed up for that 'Informed Delivery' service from the USPS?

[Siwsan]

From the website:

Digitally preview your mail and manage your packages scheduled to arrive soon! Informed Delivery allows you to view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of letter-sized mailpieces and track packages in one convenient location.*

* Images are only provided for letter-sized mailpieces that are processed through USPS' automated equipment

[marybourg]

1. Yes. Love it!

I signed up my P.O. Box. Now I only go to empty it when there's something I actually want!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. yes and I love it...you can report mail you did not get that they had imaged also

I wish the USPS could take over UPS and Fedex, pay everyone very high union wages, etc.

UPS is Teamsters, Fed Ex is bullshit.


I am rambling, but YES the service is awesome!

[Adrahil]

8. Disagree about nationalizing UPS and FedEx...

Many of the recent improvements at USPS are to due to competitive pressures from UPS and FedEx.

[DesertRat]

3. Yes, my husband uses it for work (home office)

It's a great service!

[NurseJackie]

4. Yes... but never received anything. No notifications. No images. Nothing.

I never followed up because I figured it was a test/trial and that it was cancelled before it got off the ground. (I did it for the novelty of it, and because I'd hoped it would save me from walking to the mailboxes in bad weather (when there was only junk mail and ValPak coupons.)

[procon]

5. Yes, it works like Amazon's delivery tracking. Both are handy services.

I live on a farm and the drive gate can't be seen from the house so in the past I never knew when packages had arrived, but now I know immediately and can toodle out the gate to retrieve them straight away.

[Patterson]

6. I like that it shows when I have Netflix DVDs.

[HipChick]

7. Yes...great for when i have to travel to...

[shanti]

9. Yes

and it's great! Definitely recommend. Even though images are only for letter sized mail, you still get tracking of all of your packages on one page.

[mitch96]

10. I had a real poor service with their package delivery service

The website said my package was delivered. It was not. The same nite I emailed them and called. No response. Went to the local postoffice and they said the carrier was already out. More bullshit to follow that I wont bore you with. I finally got to talk with the carrier and he TOLD me he delivered it to the wrong house. He said he would take care of it. Not believing them I went to the house and yes they had my package. I'm still waiting for them to reply to the email/phone call and the carrier to respond..
So basically they loose the package and your screwed.. grrrrrrrrrrrr..

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[Siwsan]

11. I've had a terrible issue with mis-delivered mail

I came home, one day, to find a stack of bereavement cards, mailed to me and delivered to my neighbor. I've gotten their mail, on several occasions - I learned to check the address before I open anything.

I noticed them scanning a bar code that they put inside the door of my mail box so maybe that explains why I haven't had that problem, lately.

[mitch96]

14. Same here,

I get everybodys mail to my house. I don't know if it's just local to me but it's weird. It's like they don't give a shit. My old man was a mail carrier in the '30's and told me some horror stories about over worked carriers just dumping mail in the trash to get done on time..
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[DavidDvorkin]

12. Yes, and I'm glad I did.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I just went to the USPS site and apparently

signed up for that already. But I never get any information from them. And looking at my account which is supposed show activity for the past 30 days, there is nothing there. None of my Netflix deliveries, none of my packages from Amazon, and definitely not the registered mail that was screwed up and went missing for two weeks.

I also have the country's worst delivery person on my route and she routinely misdelivers mail, ignores the vacation mail holds I file -- I've even taken up putting a note inside my mailbox when I go on vacation, instructing her not to put mail there until the note disappears and I've picked up all my held mail. Invariably at least some mail gets delivered. She never scanned the registered letter when it finally passed through her hands. I had to go to the post office with the envelope and have them scan it to show it had been delivered. Oh, and she simply put it in my mail box. I thought you were supposed to have to sign for registered mail.