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- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 21:28:37 MST
- From: mrosen@NYX.CS.DU.EDU(Michael Rosen)
- Subject: File 5--USPS Freedom of Information Act Requests
-
- In issue #42 of Phrack there was an article about the USPS'
- practice
- of selling change of address information without consumer consent.
- I
- sent the supplied form letter and carbon copied my congressman and
- senators. Today I received a reply from the USPS Records Office.
-
- April 1, 1993
-
- Dear Mr. Rosen:
-
- This concerns your recent Privacy Act request for accountings of
- disclosure of mail forwarding information you have provided to
- the Postal Service.
-
- Disclosure of your forwarding address might have been made to
- individual requesters by post offices or to subscribers to the
- National Change of Address File (NCOA) by an NCOA licensee. The
- NCOA is a consolidated file of all forwarding information
- provided by postal customers and stored on automated media.
- Listholders may subscribe to NCOA to obtain the new addresses of
- individuals for whom they already have in their possession the
- old address.
-
- For disclosures made by post offices, we are in the process of
- querying the Washington, DC postmaster for any accountings.
-
- For disclosures made from the NCOA system, we will begin
- querying
- NCOA licensees all of which keep logs identifying the particular
- subscribers to whom they have given NCOA information. This
- accounting will not identify with certainty the subscribers who
- have in fact received your new address, but will give you a list
- of all subscribers receiving NCOA service for the relevant time
- period and thus might have received your address.
-
- Because a large number of requests like yours are being
- received,
- there will be a delay in responding. Requests are being
- processed in order of receipt and you will be sent the
- accountings as soon as possible. Your patience is appreciated.
-
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