Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 21:28:37 MST
From:
[email protected](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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