Post office to deliver private mailbox rules.(U.S. Postal Service)(Brief Article)

Use of 'apartment' or 'suite' to be prohibited

For the past 12 years, self-employed executive recruiter Sandi Taylor has received her business mail at a Mail Boxes Etc. location in suburban Dallas.

You wouldn't know Taylor works out of her home by looking at her business address; it includes a suite number at a street address in Richardson, Texas. The word "box" isn't used.

Taylor wants to keep it that way.

But the U.S. Postal Service wants to force Taylor and the estimated 1 million other small businesses that use private mailboxes to disclose this fact. It plans to ban the use of "suite" or "apartment" in private, mailbox addresses, …