Posted on 02/01/2020 10:14:12 AM PST by cableguymn
The post office has decided they will no longer bring packages to our home because it's to far from the road. They will only bring items they think will fit in my mailbox (and so far, they think none of them will)
I'm not really in the mood to run 20 miles one way to get a package.
when you google "large mail box" or what ever you get cardboard boxes. when I actually find something that will accept a decent sized package its 3-700 bucks. I would assume if it's not an official mailbox (approved and all) they won't use it.
I'm open to suggestions as to how to address this. The carrier says his hands are tied. he is no longer allowed to drive up my driveway.
my front yard is all trees and rocks..
nothing to mow already..
it’s also all hill.
they had to move a lot of dirt around to make the current driveway.
Did we grow up in the same town !!!!
Would like to find an M80 or Ash Can as we called them
town is a 20 mile drive.
I am not a package delivery company. USPS is.. or at least claims to be.
Wished I could, but neither UPS nor FEDEX recognize my address, which was legally assigned by the US Post Office and the local police can find it.
Personally I think a lot of the delivery problems are caused by delivery companies using Google earth to find addresses. That is fine along as you know when the photograph your looking at was taken.
They don’t even bother to bring them out.
this morning at 8:30 they marked one “undelivered, mailbox full”
Thats odd I thought, the kid brought yesterdays mail up with him when the school bus dropped him off..
go look. it’s empty. no tire tracks in the fresh snow (I am at the end of a dead end road. no one really comes down here unless that have a reason too)
Generally the carrier comes around 2.. he won’t have it with him either. someone at the PO looks at the package and decides if it’ll fit my box or not.
thus far, everything has been to big to fit in my medium sized box according to this person.
We used them, taped to a small rock, to go “fishing”, too. The cooler always came back, filled. A couple M-80s and a net; no pole needed. LOL.
Could you have built a -small- loop, and put a USPS approved box on the loop?
It’s also safer for our postman in the winter when there’s ice. I always worried about him falling. Makes for one less stop for him to get out of his truck.
I could just put the box at the end of the road with my current box.
problem is, I have yet to see a postmaster general box big enough to accept a radiator for a car, struts for a car, or any other larger item.
ya, except i like my landscaping more than I like the USPS.
through rain.. through snow... through... oh the hell with it, if we have to get out of the truck or use reverse we’re not delivering it.
either you deliver or you don’t.
apparently they have decided not to.
Could you put a small gravel turnout close to the road, where drive meets the road, so he turns in, drops package in box, and comes out, without backing up?
True story. I order my motor oil from amazon in a 55 gallon drum.
its cheaper that the local propane/oil company and a dock truck delivers it right to the shop door.
the problem is the box.
they are demanding a us postmaster general approved one.
I can’t even find one large enough to fit the packages they are currently not delivering.
I can just put what ever next to my current mailbox and he can deal with the road. No need for additional driveway down by the road.
I completely understand that.
“Get a PO box
Sign up for Informed Delivery
Go pick up mail when you have something important to pick up”
I did that after three or four neighbors came by with my mail (important) that was misdelivered to their houses.
At first I thought checking the Box “not delivered” would do the trick, but I was wrong and resorted to the the PO box along with the informed delivery service.
The USPS has for decades had a regulation prohibiting mail carriers from driving on private roads and driveways. That is why one sees so many mailboxes along rural roads and along the public roads in new housing developments with public roadways. Gated communities with private roads have mailboxes outside the entrance to the gated communities.
Your mail carriers have been doing a favor by driving up your driveway to deliver your mail.
You need to call the postmaster to determine what sorts of mailboxes meet USPS standards. You also need to check with your municipality to determine how those mailboxes must be installed. Some communities require the mailboxes to be encased in certain type of stone. Other communities require certain types of mounting hardware.
Hi schooler flushed one down a toilet,wasnt pretty.
Never got caught but the interrogations were intense
No one squealed
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