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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Although they can deliver to the house, ups and fedex usually pass on their packages to the usps, and it is delivered to your mailbox, or to the large common mailboxes at the mail station. If the box is too large for the common boxes, then USPS will deliver to your house. So, you will get most of your packages at the mail station.
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This is absolutely not true. The packages are not "passed on" as if FedEx and UPS do not want to deliver them.There is a service that cost's less whereby FedEx moves the package to the local USPS facility and then they deliver it. Used to be called "smart post", don't know if that's still the case. But that is a service the shipper decides on, not FedEx. In fact, FedEx flies a great percentage of the first class mail on their aircraft to various cities. It is the first cargo removed from the plane (maybe after the haz...I'm starting to forget! YAY!) and trucks bring it to the local post offices.
I would bet some of the above applies to UPS also. Never worked there so I don't know.