I'm not sure I understand the issue here. If the package was delivered to the postal station in The Villages and placed in a locked mailbox where the only person with access to the key is the recipient, the only thing missing was that the local postal contractor did not actually require the recipient to sign for the package. But, technically, the employee who signed for the package at the Lady Lake office was only signing as an "in transit" signature. There may have been other employees who also signed for it along the delivery route. The people who work at the local postal station are employed by the Government, and they represent the Federal Government Post Office. So, the package was still in possession by the Government until the final recipient took it out of the locked box. Note that, if the package was too large to fit in the locked box, the postal employee may have delivered it to the recipient's house and required a signature there. But, I think the USPS feels that a signature is not required when it is removed from a locked box where the only person with a key is the final recipient.
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