Editing Getting a Social Security Card (section)

=== USPS Address Verification ===

The thing that the Reddit guys recommended did not actually work. The USPS Address Verification system accepted a request to start verification for Astra Meridian, but the actual post office wanted photo ID with the address on it to process the request. All the identification with addresses on it were not hers (a six month old cannot sign a home lease) and all the identification with a photo on it did not contain an address (US passports do not carry addresses). Consequently, nothing could be done here. What we did do is ask that the post office tell the last mile delivery guy to please deliver to our mail box any mail intended for Astra Meridian. I don't know if anything took or not but the mail did arrive on this third attempt.

For what it's worth, our other friends who had mail delivery issues with their SSN just applied on the second time and had it work right away, so there is some failure rate and we just eventually got lucky.