There's no "service" quite like government service.
Well there is the post office.
When I bought my house across the street from the local post office, 3+ decades ago. It came with a post office box for my mail. For decades I struggled with mail addressed to my street (E-911) address, returned as undeliverable by the USPS. Over the decades I had some serious snafu's. The worst was when I discovered that my house was being put up for auction due to non-payment of taxes.
It turns out the tax bills sent to my physical address were returned to the tax collector as undeliverable. Thankfully the postoffice had mercy on me and delivered the auction notice into my PO box. I visited the local tax collector and had them adjust my mailing address after I paid them in full on the spot. Taxes here are almost embarrassingly low (but we don't get what we don't pay for). I had similar but lesser USPS address related snafus like my home insurance policy almost cancelled for non payment when they decided to return my insurance bills. I lived here for decades with the postmasters generally giving me my important mail but it was a PIA when mail you were getting reliably for decades all of a sudden does not arrive.
Many vendors and companies depend on the USPS street address database as the definitive shipping address authority. I can't tell you how many times merchants have told me that my home address does not exist, apparently because of the USPS database. After decades I finally decided to stop trying to convince them of the obvious and installed a physical mailbox on the street in front of my house to receive mail deliveries.
This was relatively painless. I installed a $35 plastic mailbox and post into a hole with a few pounds of redimix to anchor it. My hope was to get my old school paper newspaper in my mailbox earlier in the morning than in my PO Box. Back three + decades ago the postmaster would put my WSJ into my PO Box first thing and I could read the front page with my morning coffee, and still be sitting in my office by 8AM... The modern USPS has degraded the PO box service to more like 9:30-10AM for mail delivery. This morning I got my real newspaper in my real mail box before 8:30AM. Not as early as 3 decades ago, but better than the last couple decades in my PO box.
Now comes waiting for the USPS master street address database to reflect that my street address is indeed valid. I just checked and it is still showing as a bad address. Its only been 2 weeks and they are moving at the speed of a government (?) service.
JR
PS: It turns out my carrier has a quiet muffler on her car so I don't hear her making her first drop of the day. I added a cheap electronic gadget that combines a tilt switch with a RF link taped to the box door, to trigger an alarm in a receiver sitting inside my house when the mailbox door is opened and shut. Simple but it works.
