Outages can result in mail being delivered hours or even days late.
Mass. The majority of failures were to outdated addresses or addresses that were mistyped, he said. There are ways to protect yourself. A single error can send outgoing mail bouncing back to you or deliver your personal correspondence to a stranger. Unless you pay to keep the old address active, anything sent there will get bounced. Tell your e-mail correspondents to send messages to the address that forwards your mail.