Comments on: Only USPS Can Deliver To PO Boxes

By: Ram Sharan Dhakal

Ram Sharan Dhakal — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:54:33 +0000

We have received shipment info in e-mail on 1st sep 09, unable to track shipment because it was given ups webpage address. On friday 04th Sep you have mentioned to check in usps and when i checked it I can see the shipment despatch details but to my curiosity how does it gets delivered? At our Post Office Box number or Courrier guys delivers it to our office? And how long it takes to arrive here in U.A.E because the item was critically urgent. Please reply me on my above e-mail ID.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:51:34 +0000

You can have a package delivered to your local UPS office for Will Call then you have the shipper put your Phone Number on the shipping tag so they can call you and notify you to pick up your package. Here in Hawaii some people live where no one will deliver so they have to get stuff shipped to a friend or to the UPS office. Even though these folks have a PO Box most of the folks want us to send UPS because out here for some reason the Post Office loses things easily….

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:50:40 +0000

I just received a package today from a vendor who, in the past, always used USPS if the delivery address was a Post Office box. This time the package came to my USPS box from UPS! The address label listed the USPS Post Office’s street address then in smaller font listed my name and box # under the heading: deliver to. I’m amazed!

By: Me

Me — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:58:30 +0000

That sucks. In the future though, you should never ship something in the box it came in. Shiiping boxes are meant to be used once and if you ship something in the box it was shipped in already you are compromising the integrity of the box, thus it being YOUR fault. As for insuring your package, that’s impossible since FedEx does NOT offer insurance, especially for Plasma TV’s. The reason you were only offered a $50 refund (which I’m sure was the cost of the shipping) is because when you shipped the tv, you assumed all responsibility for it, since FedEx does not insure. Better Luck Next Time.

By: webshopper

webshopper — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:18:22 +0000

Note to all shippers using UPS & FedEx exclusively: wake up or die! It’s the time of the consumer and when I want you to deliver USPS priority mail, listen up. It’s time to rethink your business plan, if you have one….

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:31:05 +0000

DHL will do it. See: link

By: LateNightLarry

LateNightLarry — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:35:47 +0000

The Postal Service (USPS) has contracts with DHL, FedEx, and UPS to deliver “the last mile”, so to speak. If senders don’t specify how a package is to be delivered, those carriers will frequently hand off the package to the USPS through the back door sometime during the day, and USPS will deliver it the next day. There is a revenue-sharing agreement between USPS and the other carriers as part of the agreements.

The USPS also contracts with FedEx to ship Express and Priority Mail on the FedEx planes, although I don’t believe it goes through FedEx hubs; the USPS has its own hub and spoke system at a number of major airports. Besides that, USPS also contracts with various passenger and freight air carriers to fly mail (First-Class or higher classes) between airports not on the FedEx routes.

If you ever get a chance to visit one of the major mail processing centers (like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc.) do so… you’ll be amazed at how fast the mail moves through those centers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:48:41 +0000

UPS does not deliver to USPS Post Office boxes. One eBay seller recently ignored my request to ship the item via USPS because my shipping address is a PO box. Instead, it was shipped via UPS. UPS did not reject the package. Instead, UPS mailed a postcard to my PO box, notifying me of the local address where my package was temporarily being held. Since I couldn’t get to that UPS office to pick up the box, it was returned to the sender. Argh.

By: Turtle

Turtle — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:26:05 +0000

Hi. USPS letter carrier. DHL , Airborne, etc. do contracted drop shipments to POB’s and street addresses. We pickup a postage fee for doing this. We don’t deliver to POB’s ; no postage paid. Try contacting USPS on their website for a schedule of charges; we often have a better price. Try our carrier pickup service; I have two E-bayers who do regularly.

By: Runa

Runa — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:17:50 +0000

About the same happens in Italy. If you own a P.O. box only Poste (the main company) may delivery mails there.

By: tiredofbeingbroke

tiredofbeingbroke — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:26:50 +0000

DHL will deliver to PO Boxes regardless of what the way bill says. At my job we use DHL on a weekly basis to send packages to PO Box addresses. They always get delivered, however am not too sure of the logistics of it.

By: karla (threadbndr)

karla (threadbndr) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:04:49 +0000

They deliver to the parents of service people, who then have to REpackage and REship via the post office (AND fill out the customs forms AND hand deliver for inspection).

Ask me how I know this?

K, Mother of a Marine

By: CT

CT — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:31:37 +0000

My company ships using Fed-Ex all the time. Since our packages are insured, Fed-Ex will not deliver via USPS or to a PO Box. However, some customers have accounts at places like Mail Boxes Etc. where they’d receive a physical address as well as a PO Box so that Fed-Ex and UPS can deliver to the store. The store will sign for the package, hold it in their back room, and place a delivery slip in your box notifying you to pick it up at the desk. To my knowledge, USPS does not offer a physical address option.

By: muckdogr

muckdogr — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:42:30 +0000

In my area anything left on the doorstep gets stolen by neighborhood kids. So it’d be nice to have the option of delivering to a PO Box. Instead of asking things to be reshipped constantly!

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:17:41 +0000

I’m a Carrier with the USPS. We get daily deliveries from FedEx, UPS, and DHL all for redelivery by USPS. The reasons why is simple, cost. The USPS delivers to every address in the US everyday. However, for UPS, Fedex, and DHL it is cheaper for them to pay the USPS to deliver for them. They save on, gas, labor, vehicle maint., etc.

BTW all USPS express mail pkgs are sent on FedEx planes for exchange of a FedEx drop off box allowed to be in front of Post Offices and I’m sure other contractual details. So another word, whether you send something by FedEx or USPS next day it all goes on the same plane.