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I live in Carolina Arbors and a large bank of mailboxes was recently installed in the last section of Phase II. I am thinking that the remainder of the future homes in our neighborhood will also have them. Also hoping that the almost 400 homes that have individual mail boxes are able to keep them!
Traditions at Heritage is like that as well as many of the new developments popping up in N Wake. We however lucked out and got a curbside mailbox somehow.
I'm curious if they still deliver packages to your door in these subdivisions? Or is it like apartments and put a key in your box to get parcels out of the large lock box?
I'm curious if they still deliver packages to your door in these subdivisions? Or is it like apartments and put a key in your box to get parcels out of the large lock box?
It is a box with a key like apartments.
On another note, my subdivision has mailboxes like that in one place. In USPS terminology they are known as cluster boxes.
On another note, my subdivision has mailboxes like that in one place. In USPS terminology they are known as cluster boxes.
That's where the USPS will screw themselves (well, one more time in a line of screwing themselves) if they have the typical one or two smallish parcel boxes per 12-24 mailboxes they have always done. Amazon is more and more using the post office for smaller boxes and usually the service is good. But if People have to drive to the post office the next day to pick something up that could have been left on the porch, because it was a little too big or the box was already taken, they will complain to Amazon to get the shipping guarantee and Amazon will stop using them. Others will as well. This is the last thing you want if you are making more and more money from parcels and less off old school mail.
Here is Cary's information page on cluster mailboxes. Nobody's happy about it, but not much can be done about it, so Cary's working to figure out the best way to accommodate the clusters.
That's where the USPS will screw themselves (well, one more time in a line of screwing themselves) if they have the typical one or two smallish parcel boxes per 12-24 mailboxes they have always done. Amazon is more and more using the post office for smaller boxes and usually the service is good. But if People have to drive to the post office the next day to pick something up that could have been left on the porch, because it was a little too big or the box was already taken, they will complain to Amazon to get the shipping guarantee and Amazon will stop using them. Others will as well. This is the last thing you want if you are making more and more money from parcels and less off old school mail.
Boxes that don't fit in the boxes are left at the door, at least that's been my experience.
These "clutter boxes" (pun intended) are perfect places for the local riff-raff to plunder. I'm not that mobile any longer and the local cluster box was vandalized once already. They are located in the middle of nowhere and easy to pop open with anyone noticing. I will eventually have to buy my meds back on Craigs list. The least they can do is put a paper shredder next to the cluster box.
Facts;
Most bills are paid on-line now. I've stopped the paper bill on every service that sends me a monthly notice. It's deprives the USPS of income and hopefully brings their demise a bit closer.
Christmas cards! Does anyone send them any more?
All they have left is...
Priority mail and the "last mile" contracts with UPS, Fedex and DHL... and they don't even do that well.
Selling stamps to stamp-collectors and those are increasing more a political statement and extraordinarily ugly to boot.
Money orders. When was the last time you send a postal money order?
Priority mail boxes. Make great storage for small parts. So easy to pack and convenient to stack.
Saturday delivery. Who gives a rat$a$$ about Saturday delivery. I'd just like an even chance of getting delivered to my curd 5 days a week. Hell. I'd take every other day.
Selling service to the despicable direct marketing advertisers
Your Congress has done a great job of totally destroying a once proud and dedicated service and turning it into a wretched self-serving bureaucratic mess..... and that was their intent.
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