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[–] • 3 pts

I live in a rural area, they don’t have USPS delivery, so I have to pay for a PO Box, and it’s a nightmare getting anything outside USPS delivered. Because we don’t have USPS delivery, the software all delivery companies use shows an invalid address, because it’s a list of where USPS delivers mail, and we’re in a black hole.

And I have to pick up all packages at the Post Office, Which is a hassle.

[–] • 3 pts

I live in a rural area, they don’t have USPS delivery, so I have to pay for a PO Box, and it’s a nightmare getting anything outside USPS delivered.

I live in a rural urban area, they don’t have USPS all forms of delivery, so I have to pay for a PO Box package reception service run out of a podiatry store, and it’s a nightmare getting anything outside USPS delivered because niggers will steal my packages off the sidewalk.

[–] • 3 pts

Theo, Move out of the hood, ASAP

[–] • 2 pts

Oh yeah fuck those address validations. It's a catch 22.

The world is engineered for cities and it's wrong!

[–] • 2 pts

That's because only the post office can deliver to a PO box. UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc. cannot, by law, deliver to this box. Same for individual mailboxes - no one is supposed to put things in that box except the post office.

It's stupid in a way, but unless you also want to pay the post office to hold your parcel, it's not going to happen.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

This is sellers shipping USPS refusing to ship to a PO Box.

And FedEx UPS DHL all have services that end with last-mile by USPS so that's no excuse either.

World is being optimized for cities. Fuck them

I literally do not have a mailbox for my street address and nobody does in this town or most towns here

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Sellers refusing is a problem. Any USPS address is capable of receiving anything sent through the postal system, so they're just being dicks, or they have no idea which method they're going to ship and need to step up their logistics game.

The others do have last-mile agreements, but that varies based on the method chosen. Sometimes that's not available to the shipper. You don't always have the option to chose that delivery method when using one of the parcel companies, they sometimes chose that themselves or you contractually agreed to have it shipped that way.

I used to live in a rural area. We had a mailbox, but it was still damn near impossible to get parcels through anyone but the post office. DHL in particular is bad - I had one end up going to an address 30 miles away from the delivery address. It, fortunately was a relative that owned a home that used to be owned by a grandparent, but still. They said they couldn't find the address even though that road has been there since the early 1800s.

I used to have a PO box too. Address was always:

P.O. Box 6000000 111 East Easy Street Mytown, Mystate, 20505

That always worked for both of them. If one complained I said "The carrier will deliver to the address that they recognize." (Usually, some just can't do their jobs.)

TL;DR - They all suck.

[–] • 1 pt

It's 2025! Letters got back home from soldiers in our revolutionary war that wouldn't make it today

[–] • 0 pt

Not sure if this helps but I use a mail service that gives me an actual street address. I get all mail, packages, etc. delivered there as this is my "home address". If you can find a like service close to your home it's easy to pick up your items. In my situation I'm fortunate to be able to have packages delivered to where ever I'm residing. Mail on the other hand I have to have forwarded to me. I am virtually paperless so this rarely happens. I use Ipostal1.com. Cost is roughly $10.00+ per month. They offer service ala carte, such as notary, sending letters from me, etc.