Yep, USPS on one hand begs for the parcel business. On the other hand doesn't want the drivers to deliver. My driver in fact said that now he has to reshuffle the packages time and time again through out his day, fill out a slip- so the whole process takes him longer. No one is served by this. UPS routes their world so they make fewer left hand turns for safeties sake. I can't believe if the rest can jockey their rigs around where they do that the little rigs that USPS uses would have issue. We have good carriers here working for the post office. Nice folks, competent drivers too. To make their carriers work harder to not get the work done, and then beg for more packages gets my goat. And Amazon can pay to return every package they send that doesn't hit my door step from now on.
I'm guessing USPS wants out of the parcel business
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MarkF48
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Amazon is growing. Perhaps we'll see a day they have their own delivery service from distribution centers.
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PJSprog
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Our local USPS carrier still delivers to the door when necessary. Of course, our driveway is only about 250 feet. I guess we'll see if that changes in the near future.
I also have a friend who is another local musician and a USPS carrier in a nearby city. He posted a rant on Facebook awhile back about all the people who don't shop at local business, preferring instead to sit at home and buy online, burdening the carriers with "piles Amazon packages." Several people responded with similar replies, noting that it was those very parcels he was castigating that were keeping him and his coworkers employed these days.
I also have a friend who is another local musician and a USPS carrier in a nearby city. He posted a rant on Facebook awhile back about all the people who don't shop at local business, preferring instead to sit at home and buy online, burdening the carriers with "piles Amazon packages." Several people responded with similar replies, noting that it was those very parcels he was castigating that were keeping him and his coworkers employed these days.
Gem99ultra
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Living outside the city limits of Warm Springs, Georgia, I'll vouch for excellent mail delivery here. Same of course with UPS and FedEx. Packages that are too large for our minimum size mailbox are delivered to our front porch.
BUT - if one lives inside the city limits of Warm Springs, you don't get home USPS mail delivery! None, nada, zero.
City residents, population of 480, have to buy a post office box, or they simply don't get USPS mail. Now - ain't that a kick in the head?
BUT - if one lives inside the city limits of Warm Springs, you don't get home USPS mail delivery! None, nada, zero.
City residents, population of 480, have to buy a post office box, or they simply don't get USPS mail. Now - ain't that a kick in the head?
PJSprog
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When I lived in St. Jacob, IL before I got married, they had a similar arrangement. Those of us who lived in the older part of town had to get a free PO box. No mail delivery. As the town grew, though, (pop. 800 when I moved there, 1100+ when I left) they started to deliver to the newer parts of town, as they ran out of available boxes. Was kind of a pain to get a package during the week, as they were closed before I got back into town after work. Had to either leave work early or wait until Saturday mornings.
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Yep... all the neighbors with large or oversize packages go to the mercantile where they are left by the carrier... it is a great service and a great little country store with gas pumps...
It is about 5 miles out from town and provides a real service out there all alone.
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mapper
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That's what is being done around here as well, friends in town have to have a PO box. The rural delivery has changed from contract drivers to postal employees. Our mailbox is not on the county road but down our driveway near my shop. I do have to provide a turnaround area so they don't have to back up. Winters aren't much of an issue here, I have to plow snow once a year about every fifth year or so. Our mailbox location is at the sufference of our postal driver but they have all been agreeable so far, our mailbox was getting destroyed by vandals on a regular basis when it was on the shoulder of the county road. I don't think the carriers particularly like trying to deliver to a mangled clump of scrap metal on top of a post and would sooner bring it down the driveway a bit. I have also noticed that she occasionally will pause here if she needs to sort her truck a bit.
dmccarty
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I really wonder how drones are going to deliver packages.
- Does the drone drop the package off at the house, mailbox, or gate?
- If the drone drops off at the house, how good is the drone at flying around trees?
- WHERE does the package get dropped? Just somewhere in the yard or does the drone have the smarts to find the front door?
- If the drone does find the front door, will it fly onto the porch to drop the package?
- If the drone drops at the mail box, how does it know which mail box goes to which house? Many mailboxes are grouped together, how will the drone figure this out.
- Is the drone smart enough to avoid kids, cars, people, or dogs as it tries to deliver the package. I can imagine a dog going after a drone that has invaded the dogs territory...
I am skeptical that drones will be able to deliver to many addresses. Many packages are going to be left outside, and who knows where outside, so they better come up with some waterproof containers.
Later,
Dan
jfh28
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lmao......I hadn't thought of that......I would fully expect to find a collection of broken drones on my porch with the dogs wagging their tails! ......Jack
