Damn TIL. I’ve lived and worked in 25% of the (contiguous) states and did not know that was a thing. I was so annoyed when I moved to a place with a neighborhood box. There have been times when I’ve liked using PO boxes, like when I’ve lived in areas where everything got stolen all the time, but I’d hate for it to be my only option.
What sucks even more is UPS and FedEx don’t want to deliver to those areas either. If you try to get a package delivered through one of them, they’ll hand it off to USPS for “last mile delivery”, and USPS will happily stamp it as undeliverable and return to sender / trash it.
Amazon has become a competitor to UPS since they started their own delivery services. This lead to UPS cutting ties with Amazon. I guess Amazon will have to complete the rollout of their own delivery services to your area and others like yours.
A drone hovers over your remote country home. Is it Amazon delivering a package? Is it an enthusiastic hobbyist with a voyeurism fetish? Is it a particularly modern version of religious hawkers? Is it the New York Times seeking subscriptions? Is it ICE?
I just thought about how these drones will be full of cameras and controlled by Jeff Bezos, who probably ate dinner with Trump last night, and who also owns Ring, a company that shares your camera footage with the government. Imagine if Flock partners with them too and they have drones flying everywhere recording 24/7 with facial recognition and license plate readers with everything feeding to our facist leader.
It’s not that UPS doesn’twant to deliver small packages, it’s that the Amazon deliveries are extremely small profit for them. Both because Amazon doesn’t pay that much for delivery, and because Amazon deliberately offloads the most expensive deliveries (like rural addresses) to rival companies.
You’re not SoL yet as the USPS is mandated to deliver to every address in the country; you may be SoL if they ever finally manage to privatize the Post Office.
My guess is Amazon is pouring money into it and lowering prices so much that it’s not profitable for UPS. Once UPS and FedEx stop competing with them Amazon will be a monopoly and will rise praises to whatever it wants.
I’m not sure I understand. UPS delivers packages for money. They don’t want to deliver small packages for any amount of money?
How long until FedEx does the same? Amazon has never delivered to my rural address. I guess if you’re out of range you’re just SOL?
I was told we don’t need USPS because corporations are better in every way and blah blah blah. Now we need USPS to get packages again?
Even usps can’t deliver to rural addresses. They deliver to line of boxes at the highway intersection which get ran over or broken into monthly.
Instead you either get a card to pick up the packages at the usps office, or you skip the broken-into mailbox and get a pobox.
Amazon.com needs to chill and get rid of their delivery services due to their anti-competitive nature.
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Damn TIL. I’ve lived and worked in 25% of the (contiguous) states and did not know that was a thing. I was so annoyed when I moved to a place with a neighborhood box. There have been times when I’ve liked using PO boxes, like when I’ve lived in areas where everything got stolen all the time, but I’d hate for it to be my only option.
What sucks even more is UPS and FedEx don’t want to deliver to those areas either. If you try to get a package delivered through one of them, they’ll hand it off to USPS for “last mile delivery”, and USPS will happily stamp it as undeliverable and return to sender / trash it.
Not asking you to dox yourself or anything but is the area your in rural, urban, suburban, exurban or any other neighborhood descriptor I missed?
The area I’m describing is rural.
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Amazon will choose what is most profitable
Amazon has become a competitor to UPS since they started their own delivery services. This lead to UPS cutting ties with Amazon. I guess Amazon will have to complete the rollout of their own delivery services to your area and others like yours.
A drone hovers over your remote country home. Is it Amazon delivering a package? Is it an enthusiastic hobbyist with a voyeurism fetish? Is it a particularly modern version of religious hawkers? Is it the New York Times seeking subscriptions? Is it ICE?
Could be anything.
I just thought about how these drones will be full of cameras and controlled by Jeff Bezos, who probably ate dinner with Trump last night, and who also owns Ring, a company that shares your camera footage with the government. Imagine if Flock partners with them too and they have drones flying everywhere recording 24/7 with facial recognition and license plate readers with everything feeding to our facist leader.
Dude…I hate to tell you… straight from Flock themselves
https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-safety-and-ring-partner-to-help-neighborhoods-work-together-for-safer-communities
Well what ever it is I’m goanna launch a rock at it with a slingshot!
It’s not that UPS doesn’twant to deliver small packages, it’s that the Amazon deliveries are extremely small profit for them. Both because Amazon doesn’t pay that much for delivery, and because Amazon deliberately offloads the most expensive deliveries (like rural addresses) to rival companies.
You’re not SoL yet as the USPS is mandated to deliver to every address in the country; you may be SoL if they ever finally manage to privatize the Post Office.
USPS actually does not deliver to all addresses, there are places that are PO Box only!
My guess is Amazon is pouring money into it and lowering prices so much that it’s not profitable for UPS. Once UPS and FedEx stop competing with them Amazon will be a monopoly and will rise praises to whatever it wants.
You expect profitable deliveries to subsidize your rural living choice.
I’m sure Amazon has some locker delivery that you can also choose.
Honestly they don’t. Used to be a rite aid but they went out of business.