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Originally Posted by NJgal
I am frustrated! We live in Richmond, and our postal worker leaves any Amazon packages that won’t fit into a locker back at the Lady Lakes post office. We just get a slip in our mailbox saying we must get it ourselves.Talking to a number of other Villagers, I find that many postal workers drop packages off at their doors. Most other places we have lived, Amazon trucks deliver everything. Here, much is carried “the last mile” by the USPS. Problem is - the contracted employees (not regular post office employees) negotiated a new contract that limits their responsibility to 1/2 mile from the postal boxes. We are 7/10 mi.! So 30+ minutes drive one way to retrieve our packages! Anybody else have this problem? Anyone find a solution?
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Imagine the frustration of the postal worker who gets informed that they MUST start delivering to the doors, all packages that don't fit in the lockers. Imagine that frustration during Christmas week, when their 8 hour day becomes 15 hours long.
Yours is not the only package to arrive at that postal station. The postal station has several hundred homes they're responsible for, and figure at least ten of them have oversized packages on any given day that is NOT Christmas week. Assume at least 30 per day during Christmas week. Now go ahead and demand that the postal worker deliver them all to everyone's house.
And what happens if they start doing that, and someone steals the oversized packages from your doorstep? You know you'll blame the postal worker for not putting it in the locker or bringing it to the Post Office where it can be held securely for you.