About six weeks ago I got a post office box. Soon after that I signed up for “street addressing“, a service provided by my post office involving an alternative address format that somewhat disguises that I have a PO box. I also now get delivery notifications for pieces of mail sent to my box.

To sign up, I went to the post office and asked for the form for street addressing. I filled out several pages, one of which was for email notification signup. The notifications started with this email (which seems to have an extra “73” in the ZIP code):

From: NoReply NoReply@uspsrmn.com
Date: Oct 29, 2016, 11:15 AM

Welcome to Real Mail Notification! You will now receive email messages when you have mail in your PO Box.

Customer Name: Charles Gorichanaz
PO Box Number: 0373
PO Box Zip Code: 941037373
Signature On File: Yes
Real Mail Notification: Yes
Street Addressing: Yes

This is an automated email message. Please do NOT reply to this email.

And when mail arrives in my box, I get these messages:

From: RealMailNotification RMN@usps.gov
Date: Nov 23, 2016, 10:46 AM

Good Morning

You will receive new mail in your PO Box™ soon.

Please do not reply to this automated message.

Pretty slick!