Quartzsite - receiving packages.

2oldman wrote:

soren wrote:
we have a physical address that USPS does not deliver to, and a PO BOX that UPS will not deliver to.

But UPS will deliver to your house?

My case was not a last-mile, it went USPS the whole way.

Yep, we are in a pretty common situation in this area. We live in a resort community on private roads, so no curbside mailboxes. The community decided to not give into USPS demands to drop $100K+ to build and maintain a mail box kiosk with potentially 2000+ boxes for the residents, on a public road, so we get free PO boxes in the actual post office. Now with the UPS last mile game we have a real entertaining system going. Big stuff ends up on the front porch, smaller stuff gets dumped at the post office. Fed-ex ground still comes straight to the house.

The issue of being denied a PO box without a deed, or other documents, has nothing to do with an individual post office, or the competence of an employee. It's more Patriot Act BS. We opened our box while our kids were off in universities, and starting new lives. We went through all the documentation to prove that we were legitimate. One kid was 400 miles away, and couldn't personally appear with ID. The office told us that they are technically required to return all mail with our box number on it, that is addressed to any family member who is not registered as an approved user of the box. In reality, when they are trying to stuff 10K pieces in boxes, before 10 AM every morning, anything with your box # on it, ends up in the box. Just more of the post 9-11 game we play, kind of like strip searching 90 year old grandmas at airports, while refusing to properly profile likely threats.