<story><title>Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Headquarters</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/10/610102872/man-allegedly-used-change-of-address-form-to-move-ups-headquarters-to-his-apartm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marme</author><text>The change of address form at USPS is laughably unsecure. All it takes is $1 and anyone can write any address and forward all the mail for 1 year to any other address. There is no verification of ID and the only warning you get is a post card at the original address telling you the mail is being forwarded but by then it is already too late as mail is already being routed to the new address. Even if you called immediately to stop it some of your mail would end up at the new address</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrischen</author><text>Postal mail is insecure yet companies and services like to rely on it as the authoritative form of notice and communication. That and also giving out info over the telephone.&lt;p&gt;On one hand we have PCI-compliance, SSL encryption, and on the other hand we have a phone call (unecrypted, easily tappable anywhere along the thousands of miles of wire) where companies expect to call me and assume it&amp;#x27;s secure enough for me to 1) know that it&amp;#x27;s definitively them and 2) not have some support agent steal my credit card information&amp;#x2F;private information.</text></comment>
<story><title>Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Headquarters</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/10/610102872/man-allegedly-used-change-of-address-form-to-move-ups-headquarters-to-his-apartm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marme</author><text>The change of address form at USPS is laughably unsecure. All it takes is $1 and anyone can write any address and forward all the mail for 1 year to any other address. There is no verification of ID and the only warning you get is a post card at the original address telling you the mail is being forwarded but by then it is already too late as mail is already being routed to the new address. Even if you called immediately to stop it some of your mail would end up at the new address</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koboll</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a new feature they just rolled out that emails you images of the mail whenever it comes. Just as little security. You can spy on someone&amp;#x27;s mail indefinitely and they&amp;#x27;d be none the wiser.</text></comment>