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csziggy

(34,136 posts)
16. For many items I prefer getting items shipped USPS
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 11:25 PM
Jul 2016

Or USPS for final delivery as some levels of FedEx and UPS do.

With USPS shipped to my PO Box I know the package will be in a secure location, out of the weather. I know a substitute or new driver won't leave the package at one of the barns or outbuilding - or as was done once, leaning up against a post at the front gate in full sight of the road.

What I do wish was that the USPS would develop a true tracking system. They claim to have one but all it does it let me know that the items have been shipped and that they have arrived.

I also wish that FedEx and UPS would tell companies to allow shipping to PO Boxes if there is a possibility that USPS will do the final delivery. Some companies will not and I have had packages left leaning against our mail box that is on the street and not visible from anywhere on my property. Usually the PO delivery people are better than that, but every so often they don't want to make the effort to drive into the farm to locate the house.

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