I am trying to set up account aliases on icloud

For the past month i have been trying to set up a new alias on icloud. I originally had 3 aliases that came over from my .mac account days. I then deleted one and had to wait seven days to create a new one. Immediately after deleting it and logging off and back on to icloud it appeared the alias was gone. When I went back out there 7 days later to create a new one the old supposedly deleted alias was there again. So I deleted it again and had to start the whole wait process again. This time it stayed deleted but when I went to select a new alias, instead of getting a prompt saying something to the affect of "that alias is already in use" I got "Can not save this alias at this time" which lead me to believe that maybe the system didn't know my 7 days were up . So I just tried another random alias and the system created that alias. Because it wasn't so random as to render itself useless I decided to keep it and delete one of the other two and then of course wait 7 days. I checked back at the 3 day mark it was still gone. Today is the 7 day mark and I just went out there and low and behold I magically have 3 aliases! TWO of the same "random" aliases. Oddly one of the random aliases has .me and .mac as the emails. Where as the rogue third alias of the same title only has the .me email. Both contain all the same information with the only exception being the additional .mac email on one. I decided to delete the magically appearing third alias today and now I'll have to wait 7 days to try to create another. What the ****?
Can someone please tell me what is going on here? And is there anyway to create an alias without waiting 7 days? Is there a way to test to see if an alias is already in use?
Anyone? Anyone?

1. If you haven't tried this already, just delete the user account entirely, and then try setting it up again.
2. To find the permissions file:
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     d. in Library, go to Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences
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