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Our community is over ten years old and has cluster box delivery - a decision imposed by the postmaster from the start.
I can report that the sky hasn't fallen.
As does mine, and my community is over twenty years old.
Having grown up in NYC where few people have their own mail boxes, I always thought it would be nice, in a "Mayberry" sort of way to have one, but, having lived now in areas where some people do have them and realizing that their mail is basically unprotected in their cute little boxes, I am perfectly fine with the clusters, or "hives" as we call them.
As does mine, and my community is over twenty years old.
Having grown up in NYC where few people have their own mail boxes, I always thought it would be nice, in a "Mayberry" sort of way to have one, but, having lived now in areas where some people do have them and realizing that their mail is basically unprotected in their cute little boxes, I am perfectly fine with the clusters, or "hives" as we call them.
What happens when you get a large package? Go to the post office? Or does the mailman bring it to your house? Also, what happens if you lose the key or the box gets broken or otherwise disabled?
Also, I wonder when and where the first cluster/hive was installed. My aunt's neighborhood had one. Her place was built in 1982 and the area is a bit older than that.
Edit: nevermind, found it out: "The Post Office Department first introduced curbside cluster boxes in 1967."
Then stop the Bush policy of prefunding retirement plans decades into the future in order to bankrupt the USPS then we wouldn't have this problem. Thank you, Republicans, for destroying the USPS and as a consequence, decimating rural America even more. Ironic
That's some pretty funny stuff. Thanks for the laugh.
Good grief! This proposal is how it has been in the city where I live for a couple decades now. You all are behind the times (LOL - the understatement of the week). Did you hear, the milkman doesn't come around anymore either.
Let's not leave out the ice man either. How many cities still have hucksters?
Under a new cost saving plan, newly built homes in the United States are no longer entitled to mail delivery to their homes; Congress is considering extending this to all existing homes in the future.
What happens when you get a large package? Go to the post office? Or does the mailman bring it to your house? Also, what happens if you lose the key or the box gets broken or otherwise disabled?
Also, I wonder when and where the first cluster/hive was installed. My aunt's neighborhood had one. Her place was built in 1982 and the area is a bit older than that.
Edit: nevermind, found it out: "The Post Office Department first introduced curbside cluster boxes in 1967."
There are bigger delivery boxes below the individual smaller boxes where larger packages are left. Each has a key that gets left in our personal box indicating that we've received something.
If the package is too big for one of those, then either they will try home delivery or leave one of those postcards in the box.
If I lose the key, I go to my central post office and ask for a replacement.
As far as broken or disabled, I believe that the post office would have to replace or repair the box(es).
Again, for me, this is really no different than living in an apartment building where we had banks of mail boxes in the lobby or a mail room with rows of boxes.
Last edited by TigerLily24; 07-24-2013 at 12:40 PM..
Well, I don't the usps delivering at all....let UPS take the job if the state can't run their business efficiently.
Nothing precludes the use of UPS to deliver mail. All we have to do is pay for it. In fact, the USPS uses UPS and other private contractors to deliver the mail in some rural areas.
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