Why do I ever read threads like this?
Oh, I know ... it's raining and I can't play golf.
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Originally Posted by Villager-2024
: A big issue is when the last part of the delivery is through USPS, was UPS or FedEx as the first part of the delivery then is handed off to USPS - the tracking shows "delivered" when it is scanned at the PO - NOT when in your box at the postal station, making it hard to track/verify packages.
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If your sender used SurePost, they're trying to save money. Complain to the shipper. The USPS makes the "Last mile delivery" and you should receive a notice that the package has been delivered. UPS/FedEx tracking essentially ends at the Post Office.
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Originally Posted by asianthree
: So depending on your contractor, they can do as they please
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Almost without exception, every shipment by UPS, USPS and Fedex, are bound by their contract with the specific product the shipper bought. The only major deliver service left, is Amazon Delivery. They have no choice but to deliver to your home, as they don't have access to USPS boxes.
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Originally Posted by jacksonla
Our : Amazon sub-contracts USPS. A third of the time their sub-contractor will not deliver to our Village doorstep, even though it's in the "special instructions" to do so.
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You "home" for purposes of the USPS, is your neighborhood mail center. Anyone and everyone who lives in TV, should understand that distinction. Only in very rare circumstances, will the USPS show up at your door.
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Originally Posted by Cassieb
They are to deliver it to your house if the parcel lockers are full. Do not contact the Lady Lake post office as they are useless. Contact the Postal Inspection Service and the Office of the Inspector Geneneral.
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& your congressmen. All will be equally useless.
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Originally Posted by R2keeper
Yes it does, The Villages as an obscure policy that prohibits the post office from delivering packages to your house if you live more than 1/2 mile from a postal station which we find really baffeling.
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It's so obscure, it doesn't even exist. The Villages has no such policy and has no control over the USPS. Baffeling, huh?!
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Originally Posted by Pairadocs
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Also have had many things ruined by villages postal employees (they are NOT U.S. government employees) taking delicate items and folding, crushing, whatever it takes to MAKE it fit into our pigeon hole of a mail box?
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If they're handling USPS mail, they are USPS employees or contractors, they are not employees of The Villages.
I had well over 150 packages delivered to me, between October and May, 2024. At least 50 of those came through USPS.
I had to go to the Lady Lake Post Office, exactly ONCE ... and it was because a package had incorrect postage on it.
Everyone wants "free shipping" and then complains they have to go to their mailbox to get their package.
There were over 25,000,000,000 packages shipped and delivered in the USA last year. If there was an error made in only 1% of those deliveries, it would 250,000,000 mistakes. Odds are, you're going to be subjected to one of those mistakes, once or twice a year. Live with it.