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Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah
I sent my first cousin a Christmas card which was returned to me as "not deliverable as addressed, unable to forward." Whatever that means!
Thanks for any help!
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I had two such letters come back to me. Same language. Since a mail forwarding order from someone who is planning to move and wants their mail forwarded, can be up to one year, this means your cousin has been gone more than one year.
Or they only asked for mail to be forwarded for 6 months or 3 months.
I am pretty sure the postal carrier put that sticker, or that status, on the envelope.
Versus your cousin knowing who sent it, only to hand it back to the carrier with "no, wrong address, they don't live here."
If the carrier is new or the substitute carrier worked that day, then no, they would not recognize the name as someone who does (or does not) live there and would deliver it. In that case it could have been that your cousin or other household member, handed the letter back to the carrier the next day
or wrote "not deliverable as addressed" on it and dropped it into a mailbox.