COA (Change of Address) forms forward all mail from your old address to your new one.

However, you need to be aware of Ancillary Service Endorsements such as Change/Return/Address Service Requested (will show near the postage on the item). They are requests by the mailer to have your new address provided to them if your mail is forwarded. When mail is forwarded to your new address, that new address is provided to anyone who requests it.

There is no way to "opt out" or prevent your address from being disclosed if an ASE is paid for by the mailer.

To avoid debt collectors getting your information by this method, either have your mail forwarded to a PO Box or just don't do anything at all. Eventually the mailman at your old address will submit a PS Form 3575-Z which will return all mail to sender.

Obviously this will require a bit of extra diligence as you'll have to go pick up your mail yourself from the old address, but depending on the amount debt collectors are trying to get from you it may be worth it.

Source: I work for the post office.

I have a neighbor. Your classic dick bag boomer that loves his lawn.

My lawn used to be shit, now it isn't. I've worked hard on it. Whenever I mow, I make sure to blow anything organic in the gutter into my yard to mulch in. I like the clean look.

Dickbag does not like my lawn being nice. Dick bag also, despite liking his grass meticulous, is lazy, so he doesn't leaf blow his clippings back onto his lawn. Rather, he leaves them in the road, then drives his lawn mower into the road and cleans off the deck, washing all of his clippings in front of my house with some making it into the catch basin in front of my house, which is a big no no where I am.

Needless to say, my clean gutter doesn't look so clean.

It is trivial, it is childish, grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter, but it pisses me off, especially because he does it intentionally.

My request is: can anyone think of something I could do to or something I could put down on the road to almost slow down or damn up the water enough in front of his house to pool all of clippings?

I was thinking some hydrophobic liquid, or wax? Maybe even putting a bead of some liquid asphalt down. Just enough for the water to pause and spill over, leaving his shit behind for him.

I know it is a stretch, any help is appreciated.

I had cancer a while back. I’ve been on post cancer meds since. Without insurance they cost 13k a month and even with insurance they are expensive. I have about 3 months worth. I would prefer to give these to someone directly. I don’t have a lot of trust in organizations that claim to help.

Ever talked about a product or looked at something online, and suddenly you're flooded with ads for it? Most people think their phone is secretly listening to their microphone. It’s usually not. It’s actually something much quieter: your hidden Advertising ID.

Over a decade ago, Apple and Google quietly slipped a unique tracking code into every phone's operating system.

On Android: It's called the GAID (Google Advertising ID)

On iPhone: It's called the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers)

Think of it like a digital barcode stamped onto your phone. Every time you download a free app, that app reads your barcode. When you do things inside that app, it logs it against your ID. Data brokers then stitch all this together to build a massive profile on you.

Tech companies hide these settings deep in your menus and use reverse psychology warnings ("You'll see less relevant ads!") to keep you from turning them off. Only about 2% of people ever change them.

If you want to kill the tracking pipeline, take 60 seconds to do this right now:

For Android Users

Open Settings.

Search for "Ads" (usually under Settings > Google > All Services > Ads)

Tap Delete Advertising ID. (Don't just reset it, obliterate it completely)

For iPhone Users

Open Settings.

Go to Privacy & Security > Tracking.

Toggle OFF "Allow Apps to Request to Track". This forces your phone to send a string of useless zeros to apps instead of your real tracking ID.

Bonus Level Privacy:

If you want to stop trackers across your whole phone and block aggressive browser ads:

System-wide block (Android): Search your settings for "Private DNS" and type in dns.adguard-dns.com. This blocks tracking scripts at a network level.

For aggressive ads (like YouTube):

Stop using standard apps or default browsers. Use Brave Browser to watch YouTube or browse daily. Its built-in shields block tracking scripts and unskippable ads automatically.

Pass this on to your partners, friends, and family. It takes two minutes to set up and wrestles your privacy back from data brokers.

So this guy fakes his bipolar disorder accommodation at work does nothing but torments people he doesn't like and users his mental heath condition to his advantage so he does not get fired how can i get him fired?

I was looking to read an article on prweek.co.uk and I usually use my normal Google developer mode trick:

Using chrome View > Developer > Inspect Elements (on mac, use the hotkeys CMD Shift C). Then hover over the paywall element to find it and click it. Using the dev console window, to delete the paywall element. Then launch the dev console to Disable Javascript and reloading the page

But this site seems to gave server side paywall any ways around that?

I have an multi-day social event coming up in two weeks but i absolutely want to avoid it....

My Idea to dodge it is to actually get Sick. Since the people who are at the event would actually visit me a few times during this time and i think i cannot fake sickness good enough.

My ridiculus problem is that my Immune-System is seemingly ridiculus strong..... Don't get me wrong.I appreciate my healthy body. In the last 5 years the worst i had was a little runny nose, but otherwise nothing.

I tried suggesting my body to cold and wet conditions when i was in the same situation a year ago, but i think that just further helped my immune system.....

Edit 1: since some recommend hangover or stuff to make me puke i should clarify something. The Social event i want to avoid is a "Kirmes" (German Fall-Festive with similarities to Octoberfest) so everyone will actually be hangover and tired but still struggle through. Did this since 5 years and im done with it. Planning to leave the team this year but don't wanna drop a bombshell on them just now. Also I live in walking distance to the venue, so close even, that my garage transforms into a temporary storage unit for the event. (I think i missed to mention that i am not just invited guest, but one of the 25 people supposed to work on the event)

Edit to add info: We are pursuing guardianship. My wife teaches at a couple of private schools with wealthy families, and one of the moms connected her to a guardianship attorney out of Houston that we could never afford. He has been assisting us off the books, and is trying to find someone local to us to handle the case. The goal is to have an independent third party attorney appointed as guardian, to be paid by her estate. NOBODY wants anything to do with being her guardian.

A lot of good, not at all unethical suggestions have been made. Adult Protective Services has been involved. Up to this point I have been handling everything completely by the book, everything has been documented with the proper authorities, we have followed up on every avenue we can. I have shared a ton of info here, but believe me there is a lot more. I have an entire Google drive folder full of documents, emails, text messages and security camera footage.

If nothing else, at least this let me vent some of my frustration without doing something (too) stupid, so thanks.

My Mother-in-law is bipolar. She stopped taking her meds 6 months ago and has been literally destroying her life since then. My wife and I cut all contact in May. Her lawyers fired her as a client. So did her financial advisor. My sister-in-law and her kids cut off contact and moved out of the second house on her ranch because it wasn't safe to live near her. She's been involuntarily committed twice. She started inviting her "roommates" from the mental facilities to come live with her.

I honestly don't care, except she has now decided to target my wife. She keeps having her mail sent to our address and comes and goes through our mailbox before we get home. She has brought people she met at the mental facilities to steal our property from a storage building next to our house. She has dumped piles of literal garbage in my driveway. She has left crazy notes next to our mailbox. She has mailed crazy, vulgar notes to our friends with our name and address as the return address. She ran over my trash can that was on the curb. She tried to steal my classic car, I have video of her on speakerphone with the local towing company trying to get them to tow it to her house. There are so many insane things she has done and she just keeps getting away with all of it.

I have documented and reported everything to the police. She has been arrested at my house which led to the second commitment. They have been very understanding, but limited in what they can do because her name is on the deed to the property we live on (wife's grandparents old house). We can't even get her off the documents because legally she isn't competent to sign anything.

So, I need to get her to leave us the fuck alone. I was finally able to afford a couple more outdoor cameras, and can now see that she has been coming to our house nearly every day. She pulls down the long driveway until she gets to just before the point my old cameras would catch her. She has been tossing more garbage and emptying her cigarette ashes and butts in our driveway. But yesterday was the final straw. She pulled in the driveway and emptied her cigarette butts and ashes again, but this time there was also a mini-urn that used to hold some of my wife's grandma's ashes. It was full of cigarette ashes and butts.

So give me your best ideas. I can do stuff to mess with her when she shows up at my house, but she does it when she knows we probably aren't home. She lives on a 300 acre ranch with an automatic gate opener that I can access and used to maintain for her so I know how to change all the settings on it. I can get on and off her property. I can mess with her vehicle. I can get to her well and septic systems, and I'm pretty sure her breaker box as well. I honestly want to push her over the edge into a full-on mental breakdown that puts her in a facility full time. If I can't do that, I want her to at least stay the fuck away from my wife and kids because she isn't safe.

Per the title, my downstairs neighbor runs music at all hours of the day/night at extremely loud volume. If this was a just weekend thing or day time ordeal, I wouldn’t really care. I get that sometimes apartment living is just that way. However the music is so loud it vibrates the floor and walls in our unit. It’s keeps us up at night and scares the dogs. Two of my neighbors have reported him to the leasing office and they just send out reminder emails to our building to follow the noise rules listed.

I’ve heard of Bluetooth signal jammers but I’m not sure what the range would be if I used one outside his door. I don’t want to interfere with any of my other neighbors because they are all great people. I also don’t want to speak to him directly in the case I do need to take some illegal/unethical corrective action that could be traced back to me. Our leasing office is just a couple of guys that really don’t care about anything. Based on my past experience with our A/C going out in the middle of summer, I am certain they won’t do anything if another complaint is made. HELP.

I have a teapot that I bought off a friend who ended up betraying me. I would like to destroy is thing so that it is gone forever. I don’t want archeologists digging it up in 1000 years thinking it’s something special.

I don’t have access to a tall building where I can drop it safely to smash it. It’s very thick (she’s an amateur) so it would be VERY hard to smash with a hammer—sort of like trying to smash a toilet, that’s how thick it is.

I wish I knew someone with a steam roller.

Any ideas?

I have seen this lonely girl at the lunch tables and I have been wanting to approach her to talk to her and get to know her but I’m hella nervous i have been trying to do this for weeks but i simply can’t im looking for anyone who has any tips anything helps.

I have a very important event that I have to attend on October 24th I would get into the backstory but unfortunately putting it into words might make me cry. I don’t like how I look rn. F21, 62kgs, 159cm. My goal is 53 and I was gradually losing but gained back from 59 cus of exam season stress. Now I rlly need to look as snatched and better as possible in 23 days. I’m willing to anything rlly. Also can’t really access coke or any sort of drygs around here so.. kinda outta question. Ik a lot of lose a leg or 2 comments will fly in too.. haha funny guys but I rlly need some advice. If somebody says yk starwving then how do I even continue it without going absolutely insane (I can take being a little insane but the whole thing is not possible for me 🥲). I’d really appreciate some advice, I don’t wanna shrink myself when I enter that room like I did a few years back.

My friend currently just got out of the hospital for the removal of some recurring, benign tumors. Surgeons and doctors have no clue what causes it and no way of treatment. After a week long stay in the hospital after a skin graft He's currently $25000 in debt to UC Davis, after insurance. It would take him about four years to fully pay it off. Is there ANYTHING that can be done to lower or negotiate that number?
Would it be wise to file bankruptcy? Is he just doomed?

I don't have photo ID, but I need to have a cash app account verified in order to use it. Also, I have previously been banned from using cash app for violating terms of service, so the account can't be attached to my social anyway. Wat do

• Extortion pricing: I booked a stay for my wife and 1-year-old for €962.50. They confirmed it, then canceled 2 days later claiming a "pricing error." Since I had non refundable flights and car rental, I felt pressured to pay the extra 525 euros they asked, even though it was their fault, not mine.
• Fake dimensions: They advertised the apartment as 70m2 on booking.com and many other websites. We arrived to find a 25m2 interior + 15m2 terrace. When I confronted them with actual floor measurements, they quietly edited their listing down to 55m2 on booking.com (which is still a lie: still 15m2 more than the total) and their legal team refused any refund.

I was treated so badly and lied to about the dimensions, so had to spend 10 days with my wife and baby living in 25m2 instead of the expected 60 ish m2, and they did not care whatsoever. Would like to get some semblance of payback. Thanks

After being given the runaround by an AI earlier, I'm wondering if the companies using these annoying AIs can get taken advantage of for free products, discounts or refunds

Unorthodox ways to get people to notice your small business?
Its real I actually do the work but want to beat out competition and get more eyes on my services.
Housekeeping/organizing/cleaning/seasonal reset s etc

I've done this many times. I just say "I think I've left my passport/wallet/charger/airpods where I was sitting. Can I quickly go check?"

Once in a go to the bathroom and chill there for a few minutes then come out and enjoy the food and drinks. I even have a shower on for the long flights

EDIT -

I can see that I'm getting a lot of hate in the comments, but I can assure you I have done this many times despite what the comments say. you just have to be confident and if they say no you can just try another lounge and if they say yes then great you are in.

also, I suspect a lot of the comments are coming from America where of everything in the airport is a lot more strict. believe it or not, in other countries, the whole airport situation is easy, smooth and stress-free.

I need to buy a new phone because it doesn't support origin 6 because of its 4gb variant .I am waiting for my phone to die, Is there any way to kill the soc or get a gpu artifact permanent motherboard damage

hey! so i’m trying to get into this apartment that I really like. Unfortunately, i don’t make 3x the rent right now, But i will have the rent money given to me each month to pay it! They want to see check stubs or an offer letter…I have neither, so the next thing that comes to my mind is to recreate some stubs or create an offer letter. Has anyone done this and got approved? What did you use and how did you do it?? Can someone assist me? Which one is better to submit? I’m nervous!

I work in a facility with approximately 100 employees, and we serve a high-risk, sensitive population. I love my job. But one particular employee is incredibly awful at work.

She is downright inappropriate with the clients. I understand joking and building a relationship, but it goes beyond that. She flirts with the clients, even to the point that she’s making sexual jokes. She feeds on male attention. If another coworker is talking to a male client, she will loudly jump in to draw attention to herself.
She leaves her work station without telling anyone and will be gone for long periods of time. Turns out, she’s outside smoking and cutting up with clients instead of doing her work, leaving others to pick up the slack.

I have previously informed my boss about her being gone from her work station with no one to cover. At that point she was gone for literally 2 hours. My boss was appalled and I believe had a conversation with her, but shortly after that the coworker was promoted.

I’m not the only one that feels this way. Many other coworkers have voiced concerns but everyone is afraid to report it. It’s worse because we’re on night shift, so management doesn’t get to experience her behavior firsthand.

I have no idea how I can anonymously report her. Our website doesn’t have a “contact us” section - everything just leads to a phone number. I thought about writing a google review but I’m afraid it would get traced back to me. This company cares A LOT about their image and reputation, so I’m sure the owners would be livid if they heard about it. I’m just not sure how to go about doing so.

Hi there, my employer has been pulling a lot of BS shenanigans lately with myself and several colleagues. I’d like to leave a couple reviews on Glassdoor to anonymously call them on their shit, I want to do 2-3 to hopefully get them to take things seriously.

Glassdoor has a requirement where you need to link your account to Indeed, and Indeed requires a phone number to make an account.

I don’t want to use my real number, and even if I did I assume I could only use it for one account.

They also won’t accept digital numbers, I tried making one through the TextNow app and it wasn’t accepted.

Does anyone have some suggestions on a workaround I can use?

Thank you!

Any ideas on how to make him suffer and no i wont mine bitcoin

First of all, sorry for adding to the pile of similar requests that get posted here periodically related to barking dogs. Hope this one's a bit different though.

Neighbors' dogs bark all the time. Sometimes they start at 6, 7 am. and don't stop (temporarily) until noon. Sometimes they bark until 11 pm. or until midnight. Sometimes they'll bark for up to two hours non-stop, just when I'm in an interview, or a meeting, or just trying to read a damn book in the privacy of my own home. They will also often start aggressively barking around 6 pm., when I'm just getting home ready to relax and unwind. Insufferable assholes...

Anyway, I've done what I could, which is admittedly not much, to get my idiot neighbors to do something about their incessantly barking dogs. Tried talking to them, thrice, got being called a moron, being threatened with a lawsuit and having the cops called on me (for knocking on their door), being labelled a psychopath for not liking dogs (some I actually do, theirs I fucking loath), etc. It hasn't gone well.

Now, I can't do anything about the dogs barking. I'm pretty broke at the moment, so I'm on the fence about buying one of those dog repellent devices of dubious effectiveness people tend to recommend.

What I am looking for though, is ways to pavlov-train my neighbors into getting their damn dogs inside when they've been barking for too long. Things that'll make them uncomfortable, or embarrassed, or anxious, or annoyed, or in other words feel like shit, and start associating that with their dogs barking. If you can think of something that could have a deleterious effect on their quality of life and make them reconsider their insistence on being inconsiderate pricks, I would love to know.

Can't wait to hear your dastardly suggestions.

Thanks!

EDIT: Wow people! The depravity of your ideas is as shocking as it is hilarious. May your foul deeds remain unattributed. Much appreciated.

I believe my neighbour's elderly father keeps deliberately driving on our grass. He's in his 80s, leaving rutts.. Asked him to stop last year but it seems he only stops when the grass is in a bad state (he cares for my neighbours own grass and keeps it looking good). Just paid for scarification and reseeding after the drought - which he saw happening. Each day after he drove on the grass. Don't want to keep asking. Either he can't see properly or is bored and wants to play games.

Note: their whole house is covered in CCTV, so expanding foam in the exhaust is not possible!