Originally Posted by pbm
Originally Posted by opus1
Originally Posted by pbm
My beef with the PO is that I have to pay over $100 a year for a PO Box because I don't get delivery to my home....If I want delivery it's to a Rural Route on the road 2 blocks from my house.....no way I'm leaving my mail sit that far away from my house. My neighbors have tried to get them to make curbside delivery for years....the mail truck would only have to loop around my block of maybe 15 homes but they won't.
The problem with having a PO Box besides cost is that it often makes it difficult or impossible to make online purchases because my mailing address is a PO Box (I assume the credit card companies are worried about fraud).....it just happened yesterday when I tried to buy some parts from fordparts.com....I couldn't make the purchase. It costs me an extra $100+ a year to be treated like a 2nd class citizen...
Dumb question, but I have to ask; are you sure?
I had to rent a PO Box earlier this year due to having to help out a family member in a different state and them fussing about their mailbox not being big enough to handle the extra mail I wanted to forward there for security
. I rented a PO box and the post office I use has "Premium Services" where you get an actual street address for UPS/Fedex delivery, so if your address is PO Box 123, and the post office you're using is at 100 Main Street, you'd have access to an address along the lines of 100 Main St #123 and that solves the "no delivery to a PO box" problem. At least it does provided the carrier isn't too lazy to get out of the truck and deliver it properly. So far, UPS has worked with that option on my deliveries, FedEx hasn't been as cooperative.
Since you mentioned you'd have to use a Rural Route address otherwise, the PO may not be big enough to offer the Premium Service, but it's worth asking if you haven't already. It doesn't cost any extra if it's available.
I'll look into that...thanks.
As far as the post that the stated 'when a PO Box is rented the PO is giving to you'....I wouldn't need them to "give me" anything, and it's price tag, if I had mail delivered to my home like most other Americans....
Talk to your postmaster, not worrying about what others did, and he/she will tell you the regulations. Maybe they can do something. If you have a number and street that is important. If you have to go to your mail box on the rural route, that;s the way it goes. Mine is 50 feet out by the street, anyone can pilfer it just as much. I stand by what I said, and it's pretty obvious. When I mail a birthday card say to Nome, Alaska it costs 55 cents. They are giving me something far more than 55 cents of services. PO Boxes at 8.50 a month, how much does it cost to keep a post office box area open? It's a long list of expenses they have keeping an office open. The 8.50 is like nothing.That's all I am saying, UPS or Fedex aren't going to deliver letters and important mail for 55 cents. There are UPS stores that rent boxes with a street address you could see if one of those is around.
