Post Offices???? Where???
 

Talk about a joke! Here we are in a community of well over 100,000 people with one post office which, for me, is nowhere near my home. I can take a drive and see post offices in hamlets with populations of a couple of hundred, if that!
The Villages, Florida's Friendliest Hometown, ...not to friendly if you want to mail a package!

Fruitland Park, Lady Lake and Wildwood ALL have post offices that are fairly convenient to The Villages. Oh..and Oxford too.

I don't get the joke----there's a post office in Wildwood, Oxford, Lady Lake, Leesburg, and probably a few other locations I don't know. Plus, to mail a package there are shipping stores in Pinellas, Colony and just about every other strip mall. Can't imagine that living anywhere in TV you are more than 3 or 4 miles from a place to mail a package.

I don't have a car so the only Post Office I can reach in my golf cart is "over the bridge and turn right".

I generally use the 'pack'n'ship' place in Spanish Springs.

Take your packages to the same place you get your mail while the attendants are there putting out the mail. Walk around back, knock on door and give to the attendant who will take the package to the post office for you to be shipped.

The Villages really has nothing to do with building new US Post Office locations.
Call your congressman, to get on the list of new PO being built.....zero!
No joke.

If being close to a post office is a priority for you....then you are welcome to move closer to one. Problem solved.

I forgot one...there's a p.o. across 441/27 right near the Historic Side...there's a Circle K across the road from it plus a Mexican restaurant. You can get there via golf cart.

I dont see the need for the snarky comments .. the poster has a very valid point ..driving 6 or 7 miles to post office is an inconvenience.. and not something you would expect of a city of 120,000 and growing .. Keeping politics and the fact that for some reason the post office doesnt consider us a city is besides the point .. the post offices are difficult enough to access via car, certainly not golf carts .. For packages, the pack n ships are quite expensive .. and enough has already been written in blogs about theft at the pool centers where the mail boxes are located ..

Blaming The Villages for a lack of a post office is like blaming them for the lack of an ocean front beach.

No, worse. The developers COULD have chosen to build TV on the ocean, but they have absolutely no control over where the U.S. government builds a post office.

And for the previous post---how boring would TOTV be without the "snarky" comments? Besides, the OP wasn't exactly all sugar and spice. I'm not sure what the point was---that everyone should have a post office in their backyard? It may not be close to YOUR house, but it's close to someone's, and if was closer to yours then it would be further away from his. And if you can get in your car and drive to a "hamlet" of a few hundred people that has a post office, then you can certainly drive a few miles to the nearest place to mail a package.

I guess it would just degenerate into an informative venue and force bored people who need to knock down people to make themselves feel good to get a life .. Snark intended for the respondent

I realized that---just playing devil's advocate.

WHERE are you from? I bet an area of dense population like New York City. Not the rest of this country.

The post offices here are no farther away from our home then they were all of our lives up North. Nobody promised that everything would be easily golf cart accessible

Theft at the pool centers where the mail boxes are located? First I've heard about it. I think that must be an overblown statement or a rumor.

Boo Hiss.

Smartest man on this Forum.