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.
Interesting. I live rurally. I have a horseshoe drive but the place across from me doesn't. They drive up his drive.
Good luck to you. I hope you can solve this.
thats the problem here as well..
amazon won’t care until enough people bitch. honestly, I think cost wise those of us in the sticks are the customers amazon would like to get rid of anyways because it costs them so much more to bring it to us.
in a metro area they handle delivery all the way to the door step. out here, they use the post office. I am sure it costs more than them handling it themselves.
LOL!
Drop-in an M-80 or Cherry Bomb, and he’ll disappear.
I’m not a package delivery company.
They are.
I feel ya! My mail box is just under 5 miles from the house, anything too big and it’s a 22 mile run to the PO.
great! now I know when a package is not coming..
they don’t even bring them to my home. They just mark them “mailbox full” and wait for me to run to town and get them (I won’t be their delivery company)
Find an Amazon Hub Locker in Your Area (worth a try). They will deliver packages there for you (my closest is a drug store).
Have your stuff sent UPS.
I live in a civilized community. They deliver stuff AND knock on the door.
Damn, when I lived in VT they didn’t deliver anything to the house. It was at boxes 1/4 mile away.
my box is maybe 250-275 feet from the house..
but the trip to town is about as long.
UPS/Fedex drive up and back out.. well UPS backs in and drives out.
I have adjusted where I buy things to companies that allow me to select the carrier.
FWIW, a friend of my wife’s who is the postmaster of a small rural office said you don’t need a full loop, just an area that’s “all weather”, i.e. gravel, where they can turn around without backing up. Maybe you can widen the end of the drive with gravel on each side or something.
I do that when I have a choice. many times when it’s “free shipping” they pick the carrier and you just have to roll with it.
Or I pick ups/fedex and they ship it sure/smart post, where UPS/fedex dumps it on USPS for last mile delivery.
You should have been “grandfathered”.
Look up some possible solutions for a mailbox, go visit the local postmaster, and have a chat and see if a solution is possible.
my house is on a hill.. any changes would require lots of work.
I just don’t see a reason to spend the money on a company that is simply being difficult.
unfortunately it doesn’t work that way.
Get someone to build you a custom mailbox. My father did that and they put the mail in it.
I supposedly went up to some higher level management over my complaint with Amazon shipping USPS. USPS doesn’t deliver to my house at all (too close); they give me a free PO Box.
Amazon had been delivering to my house through UPS/Fedex, but suddenly an Amazon subscription deliver of dogfood went into the PO; I had to carry it out of the PO in bulky boxes and ended up cutting my face on a box.
So, supposedly, this higher level manager put a note on my account that I was not to get USPS shipments. They shipped my next shipment USPS.
So I called Amazon, said I am not picking it up from USPS, and USPS will be returning it.
Funny thing, if I lived maybe another block away, USPS would not only deliver to my house, but they would deliver on Sunday’s. But because of how far I live, not only do I not get home delivery, but I am locked out of my packages, where my neighbor a block away is getting Sunday delivery.
My family orders a lot of stuff off the interwebs, because it's so far to the nearest small town that doesn't have much shopping anyway. Package delivery since Christmas has been all post office, except for one express delivery from FEDEX, for some Apple hardware.
flr
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