In today’s mail, a big card from the United States Postal Service; the crucial sentence is bold-faced:
Official Change-Of-Address Validation
The Postal Service has received a Change-Of-Address order asking us to forward mail from this address for ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY …
The Postal Service utilizes two-factor authentification to verify Change-Of-Address requests. The purpose of this notification is to provide additional opportunity to confirm this request to forward mail is correct.If you are not ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY no further action is required.
If the person listed did not ask the Postal Service to forward their mail, please dispute this Change-Of-Address [details of dispute schemes follow]
It could hardly be clearer from the context that the bold-faced sentence should read:
If you are ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY no further action is required.
(Well, if you are ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY and you intended to submit a Change-Of-Address order. It’s a genuinely complex situation; there are people who attempt to harm and harass others by filing malicious Change-Of-Address orders.)
July 4, 2026 at 7:51 am |
As someone who has received these for someone else’s name (I was not, as it were, Arnold Melchior Zwicky), I think the wording may actually be as intended. If you’re not AMZ, you can ignore it. If you are AMZ, but you don’t want your mail forwarded, you should take action. (In my case I was living in an apartment with numerous previous renters, so I assume that one of them was trying to get his mail.)