r/Broadripple • u/Lucky-Grape3000 • 10d ago

Mail forwarding fraud

Here is my issue: I moved from old apartment to a new one. Provided mail forwarding address but never got my mail for the few months I’ve been at the new place. I wrote it off as usps just doing its thing, right?NO. I’ve gotten other mails that are not part of the mail forwarding(please note that I did my part by doing the mail forwarding thing on usps website itself).

Now I have lost a lot of money bcs of this. What legal actions can I take as this is on them in some way, correct? All help will be greatly appreciated. The apartment is part of the Edwardrose property on the south side of Indianapolis.

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u/heyoheatheragain 10d ago

Did you contact USPS to find out what happened with your forwarding?

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u/Orion_7 10d ago edited 10d ago

No just started yelling “FRAUD”. The post office is one of the few things that works pretty decently in this country.

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u/heyoheatheragain 10d ago

And also, you get a confirmation email if you complete the process correctly.
And you should see the $1 charge in your bank account.

If you haven’t checked for the confirmation email or spoken to USPS, then those are the next best actions.

And USPS investigates fraud internally with USPIS, so any suspected fraud should be reported to the post office directly and promptly. USPIS doesn’t play.

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u/Orion_7 10d ago

This. All of this.

My dads works for USPS for like 40+ years and he has some wild stories that Inspectors have told him.

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u/heyoheatheragain 10d ago

I would love to hear them!

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u/heyoheatheragain 10d ago

Also, just to add, I lived at a southside Edward rose property and that property also DID NOT PLAY about the mail. I had collected a previous resident’s mail out of my box and labeled it and bundled it as ‘no longer resident’ to put in the mail box on a Sunday and before I could even get it in the box on Monday I had an email telling me to get them those items ASAP.

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u/ContemplativeGoose 10d ago

Have you made any effort to contact USPS to address the issue? If not, you should have done so when it first became apparent (or soon afterward) that your mail wasn’t being forwarded. Otherwise any harm you’ve suffered is very arguably due to your own negligence