The Villages needs a new post office!
 

Got a message in my mailbox that said I owed $8.66 postage due. They didn’t say what it was for, who it was from, where/whom to pay, or provide a tracking number. And there was no Form 3849 which is needed to request redelivery. I had no idea what it was.

Now they say I must contact the Lady Lake post office to inquire. They don’t answer their phones, and it’s an hour and a half drive (round trip), and I don’t even know if they still have the item or have already returned it to the sender.

The Lady Lake post office may have been conveniently located 10 years ago. But with the expansion southward, it’s now a big chunk of the day to drive there for those of us in the south. Why is it so difficult to include a more convenient branch post office that serves the Villages somewhere amidst all the new development in the south?

We were surprised to find our post office was the one ten miles away rather than the one three miles away. I didn't realize Lady Lake was also being used for those south of 44.

A guess would be that Lady Lake was convenient at the time and was large enough to handle the volume. It would be nice if the Okahumpka office could be used for the southern areas but that building looks rather small and there is probably no money in the budget for expanding it.

I would be surprised if they never answer their phones unless it was Monday morning when they opened. There is another number that shows on their site 800-275-8777 that is the ask usps number? In the future you might try informed delivery that would show the incoming mail via your email so you might have an idea what is coming to your mailbox. If your not expecting anything incoming and no one has called you saying did you receive this then I would not be to concerned. I also would not start the car and drive down until I knew what the trip was for.

The U.S. Postal Service head DeJoy is promising 10,000 job cuts and a review of leases of almost 31,000 postal retail centers and DOGE is in the process of slashing USPS funds even further. Doubtful there'll be a brand new shiny post office going up in the area any time soon.

DeJoy is gone.

Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

Register at usps.com. The site has links for sending messages to customer service, post office locations, tracking, etc. I've used it to get answers, hold mail and a few other things, and it worked. Of course, that was a year or more ago. Things change.

I got a postage due for $4.99 on my birthday. Turns out it was a birthday card (card priced $5.99) with postage due. A normal size card that had a decoration on the front that made it about a quarter of an inch thick. Probably should have had an extra stamp but $4.99? Had I known what it was, probably would not have paid.

IMO that should have been sent to one that mailed it not the receiver? But, bet they figured out the receiver would be one most likely one to pay?

Take a ride, go to Sam’s Club, stop at Total Wine, have lunch at Miller’s Ale House and go to the post office. It’s not really that bad, I live south of 44 also and go up that way often. It’s not the other side of the world. Enjoy a little, and I recommend the fish and chips at Millers.

USPS might be profitable if they'd stop wasting time delivering junk mail. Do you see UPS or FedEx delivering stuff no one wants. I clean out my mailbox once a week and it's packed with all junk/trash.

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Junk mail provides approximately 20% of all USPS revenues and helps subsidize first-class mail. As small price to pay to have to deal with what comes to your individual mail box.

New post office.
 

We have a better chance of getting a Hooters in the villages than we do of getting a new post office. Just toungr inicheek remark. When I moved here 20 years ago was talk of getting a post office other than the one in the historic portion. With all the political clout of the Morse family and still no post office, I doubt that will ever happen. He did help get the new V A facility which is a big improvement in the small space it occupied at Laurel Manor when I first moved here.

Trimming the fat
 

I think it is great some of the waste is being trimmed from the USPS. They keep wanting more money and the service gets worse and worse. Its no secret what the problem is!