Will USPS deliver a forwarded check from a CA state agency?
justkevin is wrong. For one thing, I’ve forwarded and received mail by hand-writing the new address plenty of times. For another, the USPS says different. According to the USPS website (which prevents linking to individual answers; go to FAQ and search on forwarding, then look around)… on normal first-class mail you can cross out the address (NOT the name) and write a new address, and the mail piece will be delivered to the new address. They say this process may be iterated as many times as needed until the mail gets to the intended recipient. But they say if you want to change the name, you need a new envelope and new postage. On a separate page, dedicated to forwarding by official “change of address” order, they say two things that are relevant here: 1. Government checks, W2s, etc are handled as the class of mail they are sent. (In your case, probably first-class.) 2. Items will be forwarded “so long as the sender did not place a non-fo
