• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    Even usps can’t deliver to rural addresses. They deliver to line of boxes at the highway intersection which get ran over or broken into monthly.

    Instead you either get a card to pick up the packages at the usps office, or you skip the broken-into mailbox and get a pobox.

    Amazon.com needs to chill and get rid of their delivery services due to their anti-competitive nature.

    • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
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      Even usps can’t deliver to rural addresses. They deliver to line of boxes at the highway intersection which get ran over or broken into monthly.

      Luxury. I live in a PO Box-only zip code. Heaven help you if the USPS gets ahold of anything addressed to your street addresses, you’ll never receive it.

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        Damn TIL. I’ve lived and worked in 25% of the (contiguous) states and did not know that was a thing. I was so annoyed when I moved to a place with a neighborhood box. There have been times when I’ve liked using PO boxes, like when I’ve lived in areas where everything got stolen all the time, but I’d hate for it to be my only option.

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          What sucks even more is UPS and FedEx don’t want to deliver to those areas either. If you try to get a package delivered through one of them, they’ll hand it off to USPS for “last mile delivery”, and USPS will happily stamp it as undeliverable and return to sender / trash it.