Hi Daryl!
DS> I have to wonder. I've seen the mail carrier stop at the end of
DS> the street for at least a half hour (it's the last block on the
DS> route), and he decides to have lunch. Why couldn't he deliver the
DS> mail first??
BM> 'Cause he's hungry now! Mail delivery here has been 'all over the
BM> place': sometimes delivered around 2:30, generally between 3:30 and
BM> 4:30, sometimes as late as 6:30, occasionally later. And it's the same
BM> carrier. Could see if a substitute and does the route in reverse of
BM> the usual way, or a different pattern.
DS> I've had mail come well after dark...and that also applies to
DS> UPS, DHL, FedEx, etc. Now, I have stuff come to the Post Office
DS> Box, and I pick it up at my leisure. I use the address of the
DS> Postal Facility, then what appears to be an apartment number, but
DS> it's the P.O. Box.
Right. ...Something still wasn't clicking.
UPS will only accept shipments to a valid street address. We do not
deliver to P.O. Boxes. If a shipper should use a P.O. Box address, the
recipient's telephone number must be included on the label. Your package
that is addressed to a P.O. Box may be delayed, will not be covered by
any UPS Service Guarantee, and will require an address correction
charge. Additionally, Army Post Office (APO) and Fleet Post Office (FPO)
addresses are not accepted.
So that tends to invalidate what you're doing. And since your doing it
it's not invalid. Back to checking.
This seems to be the answer:
Can I ship via FedEx or UPS to a PO box?
Short answer:
Yes, if you use a "hybrid service" like FedEx SmartPost or UPS SurePost.
otherwise, no, if the address has the words "PO BOX" in it. If you want
to use FedEx or UPS, ask the customer for a physical street address,
like "123 Main St" instead of "PO BOX 500".
Continues with the 'long answer' at
https://help.shipvine.com/portal/en/kb/articles/can-i-ship-via-fedex-or-
ups-to-a-po-box
...Ah! A little further on in the 'long answer' is this:
FedEx and UPS can't deliver to PO boxes because the USPS won't let
them. It's as simple as that, or at least, it was that simple for
many years.
There is an obscure feature of the USPS offered for some PO boxes called
Street-Style Addressing that will allow the customer to receive UPS and
FedEx packages at their PO box. The customer has to have filled out a
special agreement with the USPS, only some post offices are eligible,
and the customer has to use a different address format (such as "123
Main St Ste 500" instead of "PO BOX 500). Confusingly, the special
agreement form says the customer should use a "# 500" format, but the
USPS address database will convert it to "Ste 500", and a different
division of USPS says that's fine. The odds of your customer being
signed up for this service and still providing you with a PO box-style
address are very small, but we include this scenario here for
completeness.
So one of those no-and-yes situations. %) The postal customer (that be
you!) has to ask for a special box to get this normally-no option.
And as far as late deliveries, had one last night. Mail here at the
house didn't arrive until approxiamtely 7:40 p.m.! I don't remember it
being that late unless something happened to the postal vehicle. UPS,
FedEx, etc. will normally deliver as late as 8 p.m. but the time is
usually on their electronic notifications.
BM> Yes, would make more sense to get your mail when the counter is open should
BM> you have a package. I would guess the Post Office Lobby here is also open
BM> constantly -- know there is a wall with Post Office boxes to
BM> the left; the counter is to the right. With the old Post Office it was
BM> arranged so the first room was with the mail boxes and stamp machines;
BM> go through doors which could be locked to get into the counter area.
DS> Some days, that app is not reliable.
For a while this summer it was running a day early: the delivery was a
day after the e-mail said it would.
BM> If it's a short bleep most of the time one can figure out what was
BM> said. Oh: reminds me - some shows will bleep out the person's name in
BM> the regular audio but if one has the Closed Captioning turned on it's
BM> printed!!
DS> Oops. I wonder if they provide the script beforehand, or if it
DS> does it "on the fly".
Now I have to research that? <gg> It appears both suggested options are
used, plus a couple more. Have seen where the CC is almost exactly what
the actor/character says so seems to be script-based, others exactly
what the actor says down to stammering. Then there are shows like
_Adam-12_ where the actor will say "this young punk sprinted away" and
the captioning will display "the hoodlum then ran in that direction".
Huh? Where'd they get that??!! Sometimes it seems like I'm watching
the international version (if there is such a thing) where the English
has been changed to make it easier for non-English speakers to under-
stand.
DS> They'd probably sue you if they got injured.
BM> I'd tell them they need to be more concerned with paper cuts!
DS> I've seen where one person rigged up his campaign sign with
DS> electrical wire (shocking), and another "cut to the quick" with
DS> razor blades in the edges. I've never seen such political vitrol
DS> as I have this year.
That's going more than a little overboard.
DS> As the late P.T. Barnum noted, "There's a sucker born every
DS> minute".
BM> Gee, I thought lollipops were created in a factory!
DS> Lolli has more than one father?? <G>
Biologically probably no, but the way her mother fooled around....!!
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