Package was stolen off my front porch

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Yes, this is true, (FYI, this is my 4th PMB) but if the PMB place goes out of business, which is what happened with my last one, the USPS WILL forward your mail.

Since I moved back to San Diego in May, I've been phasing it out since it expires in March. Most everything is coming to my home address now, and I only go to the PMB once per month, and there's not much in there, and nothing of any importance inside of it.

[moved]

I haven't had a package stolen, but thanks to a seasonal UPS driver not doing his job, I had a package misdelivered. Instead of looking for the apartment number on my door, he gave it to the first person that he saw in my complex.

I raised h**l with UPS about the driver picking it up from whoever he delivered it to, and redelivering it to me, but it never happened. It eventually made it to me, but I plan to file a complaint with UPS about it.

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by moved

Yes, this is true, (FYI, this is my 4th PMB) but if the PMB place goes out of business, which is what happened with my last one, the USPS WILL forward your mail.
Since I moved back to San Diego in May, I've been phasing it out since it expires in March. Most everything is coming to my home address now, and I only go to the PMB once per month, and there's not much in there, and nothing of any importance inside of it.

In theory the carrier is forwarding all of the businesses mail and yours is just caught in the mix when a business closes. It is not humanly possible to remember potentially thousands of names and determining which are still active for a single address. Perhaps in the future every piece of mail will be screened for a change of address by postal software but that would necessitate a lowered delivery time standard.

[moved]

Originally Posted by Taiko

In theory the carrier is forwarding all of the businesses mail and yours is just caught in the mix when a business closes. It is not humanly possible to remember potentially thousands of names and determining which are still active for a single address. Perhaps in the future every piece of mail will be screened for a change of address by postal software but that would necessitate a lowered delivery time standard.

ALL of the mail from the residents from the PMB store that closed was being held at the USPS and forwarded, not just mine. This is the exception to the rule per the USPS. I was told by the clerk at the counter that the ONLY reason the mail was being held and forwarded is because the store closed. Otherwise, you pay to have it forwarded.

The store lost their lease, and no one except the owner and employees were allowed inside of it, because they were taking everything out of the store. It was my address for eight years, and I had no plans to change it. My information came straight from the inside of the USPS main office.

[cfa-ish]

Originally Posted by oddstray

And last year, UPS was known to pitch soft packages (which obviously contained clothes) over the rail of our second-story balcony, which worked well for that.

No way.

[oddstray]

Originally Posted by cfa-ish

No way.

I was pretty amazed the first time I found one out there.

But then, I regularly order clothes on-line since I don't fit off-the-shelf. So it makes sense that they would recognize that this was clothes, and do that. It also saves them the time it would take to walk up the stairs to the door, and UPS drivers get micro-managed on time/productivity. It happened a few more times, so that must have been the same driver.