[MightyDog]

I know that Postal Stations are what villagers use to receive USPS mail.

My questions are:
1) When you give your address for receiving mail to anyone, do you provide your street address or do you give them a postal station address and your box number?

2) Obviously your street address corresponds to a particular box at the station but, can you also only provide the station address and box number to receive mail?

Thank you....

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by MightyDog

I know that Postal Stations are what villagers use to receive USPS mail.

My questions are:
1) When you give your address for receiving mail to anyone, do you provide your street address or do you give them a postal station address and your box number?

2) Obviously your street address corresponds to a particular box at the station but, can you also only provide the station address and box number to receive mail?

Thank you....

Your street address only

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by MightyDog

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2) Obviously your street address corresponds to a particular box at the station but, can you also only provide the station address and box number to receive mail?

Thank you....

I suspect that would not work. Mail should be sent to your street address.

Reasoning:

Twice I have been at the postal station and met the woman who distributes our mail while she was working. Seeing me, she asked which address I was there for so she could make sure all my mail was in my box, saving me from having to come back. Giving her my box number was not useful - she still asked for my home address.

I get the impression that the box number is only on the outside of the station and that inside the station the boxes are labeled with the street address of the home.

[MrFlorida]

Street address

[MsPCGenius]

I suspect box numbers are how key access is managed. The key you were provided has no relationship to your address....

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by MsPCGenius

I suspect box numbers are how key access is managed. The key you were provided has no relationship to your address....

How can your second sentence be correct? The box number is matched to your address and the key is matched to the box number. So, there is at least an indirect relationship between the address and the key.

[StarFighter]

The backside of your box has the street address labeled on it. That is how the mail is presorted in sequence at the main post office in Orlando.

[bowlingal]

MightyDog.....a big NO. street address only

[Sandy and Ed]

Unfortunately you can’t “hide” your street address by using your Villages box number. I asked the mail delivery person at the mail pickup station at Pennecamp. You would need to invest in a regular PO Box to get anonymity

[NoMo50]

The person who handles the mail at our postal station is confused enough already. Doing what you suggest would surely cause her to blow a gasket.

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by MightyDog

I know that Postal Stations are what villagers use to receive USPS mail.

My questions are:
1) When you give your address for receiving mail to anyone, do you provide your street address or do you give them a postal station address and your box number?

2) Obviously your street address corresponds to a particular box at the station but, can you also only provide the station address and box number to receive mail?

Thank you....

No. You use street address only. If you want to avoid sharing your street address rent a box at a Mail Drop business, like the UPS Store.

[jojoturf]

Stepped inside our postal station to speak to the mail lady — she had no idea what key # correlated to our mailbox. Big charts were above each lineup of boxes with addresses listed, ex: 1500 - 1550 Pennsylvania Ave….that was her guide. Cheers!

[MightyDog]

Originally Posted by NoMo50

The person who handles the mail at our postal station is confused enough already. Doing what you suggest would surely cause her to blow a gasket.

Lol, that's encouraging. Btw, I wasn't suggesting anything - merely asking a question.