instance, that doesn't appear to be what's happening. This seems more like a skip tracing usage, which is not allowed. For elections, I could technically use NCOALink as an election official (and we did this) to identify people who have moved and A) not mail to people who moved
out of state and NOT mail to them or B) Mail to people who moved in-state to tell them how to re-register or change something. As a third party law firm, I CANNOT use the system to find people who filed a change of address and still voted. That's not allowed. If violating that
the licensee could have their license suspended or terminated-licenses can run from 20K to 200K annually and there can be criminal penalties as well. Data Marketing firms and mail houses take this requirement VERY seriously because violating the PAF can basically close their
business. By admitting they used the NCOALink database to find people who filed a change of address, they violated the Weir Group violated the Privacy Act of 1974. #Assholes
This is now my third long-ass postal insider thread of 2020. I hate this year.
Ick, sorry about the typos in this one. It's past my bedtime.
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If you are reading about USPS "delivery scans" today, please understand that the USPS does not scan First Class letters (mail in ballots) like they do packages. The final scan on a piece of mail does not mean it was delivered, nor does a missing scan mean it wasn't delivered. 1/
What that data shows is a destination scan and here's how that works. In a simple world, letters and flats processed through two methods - on the big machines and not on the big machines. You know, you read all about those big machines this summer and fall as they are being /2
dismantled and such. When mail is processed on a big machine, it has origin and destination scans. The origin scan is the first time it is processed on the sorting machine and its barcode is scanned. The destination scan is the last time it is scanned on a big machine. This 3/