I had to update my address on my driver’s license and they needed a couple pieces of mail with my new address and name on it to verify but I hadn’t gotten any mail at the new place yet.
Then I started thinking about it more and realized I haven’t actually received a letter addressed specifically to me in over a year, possibly in over 3 years. I have everything set to send by email because it isn’t 1950 anymore. Am I just a loser with no corporate pen pals or is physical mail an antiquated form of address verification now?
Seems fairly outdated to me, but also completely inadequate. I’ve lived in my current spot for almost 3 years now, and I still routinely receive bills sent to a prior resident. Not even the most recent prior resident either, but someone who hadn’t lived here in a decade or more, and somehow the utility company doesn’t know that he’s not gonna pay that bill they’re sending him, even when I’m paying the same damn company for utilities at the same address.
Oh man, when I first moved into the new apartment, I was getting mail for like 5 different people and then 4 times in a week I got mail that wasn’t even for my apartment, one of them wasn’t even for my building.
We still get letters occasionally for people that lived here in the 90s. And haven’t since then. It’s wild.
You can totally use your lease.
For proof or residence, it’s usually bill for a utility with your name and address on it. That is to say, you can’t show up with a birthday card sent to your address because anyone can send a birthday card with your name on it to any address, but the cable company, electric company, etc isn’t going to send a bill to your address with your name on it unless you’re on the hook paying that bill.
Is it outdated? Maybe a little. I think paper bills are still pretty normal, even if they’re paid online, but increasingly less so.
I try to avoid unnecessary mail when I can so anything I can set on autopay and get emails for I do, which has been everything for quite some time. I just feel like I’m getting less than 1% of the mail my parents used to get when I was a kid and before everything was done electronically
I can say with some certainty that the amount of junk mail I get is not significantly lower than in the past, but that’s not addressed to me, usually, it’s almost always “current resident”.
I doubt DMVs are going to move away from accepting mail, but they probably already have an option for your situation, like printing out something from a utility that equates to a bill with your name and address on it.
Their work around is that I have to request mail from my bank lol
What state? You should probably be able to use a utility bill for that purpose, even if it’s a digital bill.
The large state of Canada. They said they wouldn’t accept a printout and that I just have to request some physical statements or bills from the companies.
