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I had a funny interaction with a financial institution about this at one point. They were having a lot of trouble understanding that company@mydomain.com was the correct email address.

Eventually the conversation went like:

"So you're saying you created a new email address just to use with us?"

"Sure, yeah."

"...That's weird."

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The weirdest of these i had were support agents who thought I was a colleague because I usually use <theirdomain>@<mydomain>

I did that for one of my amazon accounts a few years back when i registered at an amazon conference (probably aws reinvent)- i.e. amazon@mydomain.com - and for about 6 months I got onto some internal email list at amazon/aws, definitely not intended for the public, likely because someone queried for all email address that had 'amazon' in the address from this registration list - thought it was pretty funny, but eventually they stopped - someone probably figured out what they did wrong.

Also have one for thifty@mydomain.com (the car rental company) - when they saw my email address at the counter they gave me the employee discount rate - I didn't correct them :)

I got cc'd into internal discussions at the management company for my flat block, about the block.

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