Overnegation strikes the USPS

In today’s mail, a big card from the United States Postal Service; the crucial sentence is bold-faced: Official Change-Of-Address Validation The Postal Service has received a Change-Of-Address order asking us to forward mail from this address for ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY … The Postal Service utilizes two-factor authentification to verify Change-Of-Address requests. The purpose of this notification is to provide additional opportunity to confirm this request to forward mail is correct. If you are not ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY no further action is required. If the person listed did not ask the Postal Service to forward their mail, please dispute this Change-Of-Address [details of dispute schemes follow] It could hardly be clearer from the context that the bold-faced sentence should read: If you are ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY no further action is required. (Well, if you are ARNOLD MELCHIOR ZWICKY and you intended to submit a Change-Of-Address order. It’s a genuinely complex situation; there are…