Post office

[Botamon]

Depends a lot on the area of the country as to package deliveries. In my area of rural Nevada USPS does not deliver to individual homes. Instead, every few miles there is a "bank" of mailboxes. But those "mailboxes" are not much more than slits about 2" high so no packages will fit. Each "bank" has a few larger boxes that are about 1 square foot in size. Most times when a package is shipped to me via USPS I get a slip in my mailbox telling me I need to drive to the main post office in town and pick up the package - takes half a day! Needless to say, if I'm ordering on line and the company tells me they ship USPS, I find someone who will ship UPS instead. UPS will deliver to my door.

This is what our mailboxes look like. I'm lucky - this bank where I pick up my mail is about a half mile from me. Other people have to drive a couple miles or more. NO home deliveries!

 

[D2Cat]

Depends a lot on the area of the country as to package deliveries. In my area of rural Nevada USPS does not deliver to individual homes. Instead, every few miles there is a "bank" of mailboxes. But those "mailboxes" are not much more than slits about 2" high so no packages will fit. Each "bank" has a few larger boxes that are about 1 square foot in size. Most times when a package is shipped to me via USPS I get a slip in my mailbox telling me I need to drive to the main post office in town and pick up the package - takes half a day! Needless to say, if I'm ordering on line and the company tells me they ship USPS, I find someone who will ship UPS instead. UPS will deliver to my door.

This is what our mailboxes look like. I'm lucky - this bank where I pick up my mail is about a half mile from me. Other people have to drive a couple miles or more. NO home deliveries!
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I'd say that "bank" of mail boxes is a benefit of being in the country! If that was in any major city it would be removed and in the scrap yard in a week.

 

[Lil Foot]

I'd say that "bank" of mail boxes is a benefit of being in the country! If that was in any major city it would be removed and in the scrap yard in a week.

Virtually identical to what we have in the Phoenix area.

 

[jyoutz]

I'd say that "bank" of mail boxes is a benefit of being in the country! If that was in any major city it would be removed and in the scrap yard in a week.

We have the same boxes where I live. But there is also a bank of larger package boxes so only the largest packages have to be picked up at the PO. UPS will deliver to our place, but they charge more than USPS, so there’s that.

 

[John T]

Have to say my local mail girl is Great ... always early, drives that mail wagon with her foot on the floor All day long ... HAMMER DOWN !

She turned me onto the "Informed delivery" website. When you sign up you get an e-mail every morning showing an actual picture of all mail for the day.

When the mail comes if something in the email isn't there, They get right on it.

But as far as USPS in general... It's Government run... we all know how that it.
Heres a good one I am going through right now.....
I shipped a Box to a friend in Minnesota .... It left CT went to Iowa (right under MN) then got shipped to ATLANTA ..... WTF!
Right now it's in limbo ..... somewhere...
unreal.
I always Write the address clearly in BIG letters... in marker. completely wrapped in HD clear shipping tape.... You would have to be Ray Charles to get it wrong.

Whatever..... It's the word we live in.

 

[ctfjr]

As my original rant thread was deleted, I'll just add how it all ended.

The package was dropped off at the post office in Dallas on 2/24. I got a text from USPS that it would delivered here on 2/26. Time goes on several days later it is still in Dallas.
So on 3/4 I get notified it was delivered here in North Palm Beach The condo we are renting has one of those banks of small mail boxes with several large boxes if you get a package. So I go down open our box expecting to see the key for a larger box. Nope.
I call the local post office - about 1/2 mile from here. No answer, get disconnected 4X. Hop in car and drive down there. Some peeps in front tell me the postmaster has closed the office until 4 (it's 2 now) because they are all alone there, not enough help.
Bottom line - they delivered it to the building across the parking lot that has a same unit number as us.
Caught the mailman the next day there and he gave it to me.

 

[D2Cat]

I ordered some tire sensors from Belgium, WI on 1/21 and arrived in Oak Creek distribution center the same day.
1/22 arrived in KCMO.
Went to KCKS same day.
1/25 went back to KCMO.
1/28 arrived at KCKS dist. center.
1/29 went to Valley falls, Ks (hour and half NW of Kansas City..... I'm south of KC).
1/30 back to KCMO,
1/31 to KCKS...... I received it 2/4.
Two weeks in transit.
They may be like the contractors who get paid by the foot of wire they bury. They leave spools of wire in holes, and go all the way around tree rows!