Complaint Review: David Hauser

Hauser List Services provides verification services for bulk mailers using the United States Postal Service to deliver mass mailings and time sensitive mail.  Decoys are real people located throughout the United States whose addresses have been entered on various bulk mailers' mailing lists.  The decoys enter online data including the date the mail was received and its physical condition.

The decoys are to be paid a price per piece, plus additional fees if Hauser requests a piece be returned to them.  Hauser has been remiss in paying their decoys for several years.

I have been a decoy for Hauser List Services for about 10 years.  Hauser had initially paid five cents per piece, by check, paying only when a certain minimum check amount had been reached.  Later, the per-piece rate was increased to 25 cents, monthly payments were announced, and PayPal was to be the payment vehicle.  Payments by PayPal were to have begun in January of 2012.

I received payments for the first quarter of 2012.  I received payments for all of 2013, and most of 2014, albeit six months late.  I did not receive a payment in April 2015, which would have covered September 2014.  Although Hauser directs decoys to hold the mail for six months in case a piece is requested, I have retained all pieces for which I have not been paid.  I have warehoused nearly a thousand pieces of decoy mail.  Today, I sent a certified letter demanding payment of past due amounts from April 2012 through April 2015.  I continue to receive mail pieces, but have stopped entering them at the end of April 2015.