Mail Delivery
 

What is the reason that mail is delivered to the mail stops instead of home delivery? This has probably been answered in prior posts but I was unable locate any posts about this using the search feature.

I also have another question about the mail there not really trying to steal your thread but I think it goes to the general question about the mail.

I mailed a letter from the mail station and it took 17 days to reach the destination. Today I received a letter that was post marked on December 24th what is the deal with those mail stations. Other neighbors have told me that if they have important mail to send they take it diectly to the Fruitland Park Post Office. I have seen the inside of the Hemingway station and I saw baskets of trash,baskets of mail and kind of a real mess.

I like the mail stops than having mail boxes in front of every house. Spuce Creek looks terrible with all of the mail boxes in front of the houses.

I like knowing that my mail and my packages (or keys to get my packages) will be there at 2 PM when I am ready to go down and get my mail.

I have never had a problem with the mail service at the mail stops. I mail my Blockbuster DVDs on a Monday AM and they arrive at BB on Tuesday AM. They ship my new DVDs on Tuesday and I get them on Wednesday. I send mail to people in TV and they get them in two days - a trip to Daytona and back. I get my MEDCO deliveries in two to three days.

I personally do not like the stacks of aluminum cans that people put out for the Lions club but it is for a good cause. I do no like the dog owners using the mail stops for a doggy bathroom. I do not like people leaving their old phone books at the mail stop. It is not a recycling place.

If you have a problem with the delivery and the mail stop, document it and give it to the postmaster at Lady Lake PO for handling. It is probably a mail carrier problem.

I never considered mailboxes to be eyesores. With the exception of two apartment buildings we lived in when we were younger we've always had a mailbox in front of the house, either on the house or a rural mailbox out by the road. It's neither good or bad, just something that's always been there. I doubt if I'll like going to the mailstop in the pouring rain though.
The Villages way sure gives the Post Office a break. Most folks get home delivery for their 42 cents.
Around here some areas, such as town house complexes, have cluster mailboxes near the entrance of the complex, sort of like a mailstop. I think that's because the streets within the complex are private roads.

We usually have warm rain...on those days it freezes we go the next day. A lot of things are different than "the way they were up north"
When in Rome...........

Or east or west. I guess that's a good thing. I'm not complaining. Just wondering why. Our home is maybe 5 minutes from the mail station so it doesn't make much difference for us.

when I have lived...
 

where there is a central mail stop it is simply for ease of the mail system. One stop every 10 houses or so instead of many stops. I can't speak for TV but that is the case where I now live.

SSmith

Well, here in TV it's more than 10 or so houses. It's one big central location with boxes for every house in that Village. I think that if you are a person who thinks "Green" you'll see this is one way to cut down on fuel use by the USPS, and also exhaust emissions and USPS personnel, as it would take more than the one employee who services the central mail center to personally deliver to each individual home. Anyway, we're an active bunch here and the mail center is in the same location as the village pool, usually, so in warm weather you can take a dip, and get your mail and meet and greet the neighbors. It's a good way to get exercise if you walk to the mail center also.

seems most in my neighborhood drive to get their mail so the "green" ideal is not working here

I like it. When I first visited I thought the mail system was weird, but now I feel it's pretty darn sensible. It's green - saves on labor, gas and structure. It's efficient and safe. It gives me a reason to talk a little walk every day.
I do wish they would add a paper recycling bin to each mail station.

I have a cousin who use to be a "community architect." He says that the mail stations are to provide a "sense of place" in a residential community, where neighbors see each other and talk.

The only negative we've had is that we frequently receive over night envelopes by US postal Service. Although they are suppose to be delivered to the house by 11 a.m., they are rolled up like a newspaper and stuffed in our little box. With no concern whatsoever for what's inside that cardboard envelope, they are smashed into the tube.

I've called the post master no less than 5 times and have been told that if a house is more than 1/2 mile away from the postal station, they have no obligation to deliver it to the house. This, despite the fee paid for guaranteed delivery.

Otherwise, the postal stations provide a nice diversion to get away from the house. They are, however, another place where you have to be all eyes to see what people are going to do driving in and out.

Not only is it a lot cheaper for the post office to deliver to a central station, you also don't have to deal with the snowplows knocking down the mail boxes.

Or the kids with baseball bats!

Another plus is that the mail centers are kept air conditioned in summer, so, anything delivered to your box or the parcel boxes is kept climate controlled (meds, chocolate, food, etc).

It's easy to hop in the golf cart to go up and check the mail.

Did you know there is one day a week pick up for recycling? Why add another collecting place that would have to be maintained.