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.
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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