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> What the hell are USPS smoking?

They always been smoking something.

When they released their "forward your mail to your new home online" feature where they charge your credit card $1 to verify your new ZIP code, I read it somewhere on dark web that a gift card works as well. I was actually purchasing new house, so I figured I give it a try! I bought a $20 gift card Visa Vanilla (with cash) and registered it online (during my visit in Starbucks using their WiFi) with my new ZIP code (you can provide any ZIP code while you register your gift card - its only for further verification) and sure it worked out like a charm! I figure I am not the only one that succeed with this. Then I read few months later at the same forum someone answer that USPS is blocking gift and prepaid cards at the moment. But for few months at least a hell broke out loose when you could load $20 gift card and pretty much forward mail of 20 strangers to your desired location, at $1 per pop.



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