First of all, I do not blame the carriers or other personel involved in the delivery of our mail. They have been very courteous and helpful. However, the system seems to function very poorly, and I am not sure where the blames lies.
We bought a lovely home in Elko, and assumed as we signed mortgage papers and other official documents, that the address of the property was the mailing address. Imagine our surprise when we moved into the house and the previous owners kindly left us utility company phone numbers and other pertinent information, and also the mailing address, which was not the physical address of the property. It was a box at the end of our street.
That seemed perfectly reasonable, although, for the life of us, we could not figure out why the box could not be named and numbered the same as the physical address of the property. We thought all was well and good, and changed our address again with all involved and the financial institutions, credit cards, forwarding addresses, etc.
Once again we were fooled. We received information from our carrier that the box at the end of the street was not our address either, because all those boxes were full, and some mumbo-jumbo about when a family moves out, the box they were using is NOT assigned to the new homeowners.instead, our address AND box, is not at the end of our street, it is at the end of a completely different street. So, not only is the address of our house not the address, it's a box number in another housing tract.
We have already run into problems with this system trying to get things delivered. The USPS will not deliver to the actual physical address of the property, and FEDX and UPS will not deliver to the postal box (which is not on our street anyway). Two orders I tried to place today want the delivery address (physical) to match the billing address, which is the postal box. This is all quite strange. We received our Nevada driver's licenses and were required to use the postal box.
That's nice. If the police ever look for us, I'm sure they'll find us living at the postal box on another street. How about voter registration? Is there a dividing line between where we actually live and where the mail box is located (which we had to use as our address to register)? Probably not, but if so does that mean I can only vote in the election where my postal box is located, or where I actually live? If there is a line, does that mean I can't vote at all?
Since there aren't enough boxes at the end of our street to enable all the houses on this street to have a box there, when someone moves out does that mean we might get a box on our ACTUAL street and our mailing address will change again? Wow! That's going to look good to the credit agencies. 4 changes of address in just a month or two, and the unit number gives everyone the impression we live in an apartment. What a system.
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