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Originally Posted by Tripredacus
The important part of the situation seems to be that OP ran a business at that address.
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He RAN a business. He was no longer part of the business. The local PO should not have accepted the COA cards and they should have explained the rules to you. I have dealt with similar situations hundreds of times. In our area, the change of address cards would have been returned by the mail forwarding unit as invalid. You have to rely on someone at the business forwarding your mail by hand, or calling you and telling you that you have mail.
This is just like someone who has their mail forwarded to a Nursing Home or a Hospital or a Hotel/Motel. Mail can't be forwarded from those entities. It has to be hand forwarded by a current employee. You can have your mail forwarded TO a NH, Hospital or Hotel/Motel, but the PO will not forward your mail FROM one of these places. The same rules apply to a jail or a prison.