rant/
Just received a letter from my postage purveyor to stop in and provide ID and additional address information. Provide the information or the service stops. Done. Over.
WTF, over!?
Here's background: The loving wife and I have been living full time in an RV for four years now It's not the typical thing old farts do, but it's not atypical either. Lots of tradesmen and professionals do this as a preferred lifestyle for increased fun and profit. (check out what a traveling nurse makes, or a union electrician or pipefitter that's on the books as willing to travel) But I digress. The implication is that you don't have a "normal" address. But, there are a multitude of things that require a "home" or "residence" address. Not a P.O. Box. Voters registration, Banking, insurance, drivers license and vehicle registration, etc, etc. Any address plugged into a web app is automatically cross checked against a USPS official database. It's a binary solution, a yes or no answer, pass / fail.
But here's the deal. Assholes from California have been coming up to Oregon and snagging slots in the mail service system to dodge taxes and fees in their home state. The Socialist State of California whined to USPS that they were loosing revenue. USPS said, "These citizens can't do that!!!" and started a campaign to crack down on these services. You can't register with family members unless you can prove you actually live with them.
I'm being screwed by tax dodging assholes from out of state, and I don't like it. I'll lose voting, banking, insurance, mail service, investment services, and who know what else that I haven't even thought of until I come up with an alternative.
Oh, and to top it off, USPS reports you as being a possible criminal enterprise so DHS flags you in various databases at homeland security for further scrutiny. Wonderful, just wonderful.
I spent six years of my life actively defending this country from external threats. I have the scars to prove it. And now these totalitarian assholes won't even let me live the last years of my life the way I want.
All the BS around the homeless, illegal aliens, the war on this, that and the other thing, bailing idiots out of major debts that they actively accepted and signed a contract for....the list goes on and on. And a state that I don't even live in, and will never willingly visit, totally screws my life over for some period of time. At least until I can figure out how to work this out.
/rant
Just received a letter from my postage purveyor to stop in and provide ID and additional address information. Provide the information or the service stops. Done. Over.
WTF, over!?
Here's background: The loving wife and I have been living full time in an RV for four years now It's not the typical thing old farts do, but it's not atypical either. Lots of tradesmen and professionals do this as a preferred lifestyle for increased fun and profit. (check out what a traveling nurse makes, or a union electrician or pipefitter that's on the books as willing to travel) But I digress. The implication is that you don't have a "normal" address. But, there are a multitude of things that require a "home" or "residence" address. Not a P.O. Box. Voters registration, Banking, insurance, drivers license and vehicle registration, etc, etc. Any address plugged into a web app is automatically cross checked against a USPS official database. It's a binary solution, a yes or no answer, pass / fail.
But here's the deal. Assholes from California have been coming up to Oregon and snagging slots in the mail service system to dodge taxes and fees in their home state. The Socialist State of California whined to USPS that they were loosing revenue. USPS said, "These citizens can't do that!!!" and started a campaign to crack down on these services. You can't register with family members unless you can prove you actually live with them.
I'm being screwed by tax dodging assholes from out of state, and I don't like it. I'll lose voting, banking, insurance, mail service, investment services, and who know what else that I haven't even thought of until I come up with an alternative.
Oh, and to top it off, USPS reports you as being a possible criminal enterprise so DHS flags you in various databases at homeland security for further scrutiny. Wonderful, just wonderful.
I spent six years of my life actively defending this country from external threats. I have the scars to prove it. And now these totalitarian assholes won't even let me live the last years of my life the way I want.
All the BS around the homeless, illegal aliens, the war on this, that and the other thing, bailing idiots out of major debts that they actively accepted and signed a contract for....the list goes on and on. And a state that I don't even live in, and will never willingly visit, totally screws my life over for some period of time. At least until I can figure out how to work this out.
/rant
