[QUOTE=Faith;8158290]
Do you not have neighbors or friends who could go get it for you? Seriously you don’t know anyone who could do that for you?[/QUOTE]
And this was MY option most of the time. I was pretty surprised that the post office would hand my package over to just anyone - but they would!
I had a friend go by - Hi, want to pick up Appsolute’s package - and they handed right over, without a delivery slip, or anything that proved that they had any rights to the package.
[QUOTE=Appsolute;8158299]
And this was MY option most of the time. I was pretty surprised that the post office would hand my package over to just anyone - but they would!
I had a friend go by - Hi, want to pick up Appsolute’s package - and they handed right over, without a delivery slip, or anything that proved that they had any rights to the package.[/QUOTE]
How often would you have a parcel back there? But you’re right, you should have sent them with that peach colored slip.
Def think it is a carrier specific thing. USPS routinely leaves packages that are too large on my porch. I think we are a rural route, but in the last 4 months we have changed carriers and now have a mail jeep delivering rather than a private vehicle.
Seems like the more rural areas would be more understanding…
[QUOTE=ReSomething;8158305]
How often would you have a parcel back there? But you’re right, you should have sent them with that peach colored slip.[/QUOTE]
Every month or two - being as I could NEVER get down there during the 1.5 hours a week when they are open (that I am not working).
I would send a friend, a neighbor, or my husband (who has a different name).
They do not ask for the slip, an ID - nada - just hand it right over. But, this is also a podunk town, and the two ladies that worked there didn’t seem very concerned with protocol (like the fact that they SHOULD be delivering to my house).
[QUOTE=emipou;8158332]
Seems like the more rural areas would be more understanding…[/QUOTE]
I don’t think OP talked to anybody. I think OP’s DD talked to somebody a bazillion miles away at one of those call centers and you know how that goes.
The Post Office in Willisburg or whatever it’s called has by now heard about this from everybody and his brother and OP probably has her saddle or is about to get it, bagged up in a giant trash bag and placed a ways down the driveway at the very least, but it bothers me that she is out there in nowhere, disabled, with no friends, no transportation, and no resources.
If anybody needs the brunt of anger it’s the seller that failed to use UPS home delivery service as requested. With a mile long driveway the Post Office isn’t going that far anyway, not officially, and that means that someone has to go down there on their own time, own vehicle, own liability, to take a parcel right up to her door if USPS does do it.
[QUOTE=Appsolute;8158357]
Every month or two - being as I could NEVER get down there during the 1.5 hours a week when they are open (that I am not working).
I would send a friend, a neighbor, or my husband (who has a different name).
They do not ask for the slip, an ID - nada - just hand it right over. But, this is also a podunk town, and the two ladies that worked there didn’t seem very concerned with protocol (like the fact that they SHOULD be delivering to my house).[/QUOTE]
After about the third one they probably knew whose to grab when they saw your DH coming up the steps. I know it was like that in my little town. They know more about you than you think they do. Heck, I used to get my one neighbor’s mail all the time and I used to know all about his financial troubles - nope, not mine, take it back.
FWIW my mailbox is at the end of my long scary driveway but USPS always drives big packages up and leaves them in front of the door. Maybe the policies are regional?
eBay/Paypal requires sellers to do signature confirmation for any item worth over a certain amount (750?) That might be part of the hold-up–unlike UPS/DHL they don’t accept online signatures or printed notes.
[QUOTE=drmgncolor;8158113]
Our neighborhood has a centralized community mail area. Yet, my USPS delivers directly to my door any packages that are too large to fit into our mail box.
Actually, outside of when I lived in the dorm in college, it has always been my experience that USPS delivers large packages to my door.
I guess USPS differs by geography and drivers and that I have been lucky in all the places I have lived?
OP, I can understand your frustration and I hope you get your saddle soon.[/QUOTE]
UMMMM, my USPS postal worker has been known to OPEN my front door and leave packages inside if the door is open! I get deliveries often for various things from USPS, FedEx and UPS, and they all bring them to my door (or inside!). I don’t live in a rural area, but the people do get out of their vehicles and walk up my steps and place the packages on my porch. Just throwing it out there…
Did you talk to the manager of the post office? If you did then j would escalate and call HIS manager and keep going up the chain.
when i lived farther out, we had a contracted “rural route carrier” and he would NEVER deliver packages. or if he would, he’d toss them over the gate - ridiculous. i now live in suburbia and USPS delivers packages to my door almost daily so whomever said USPS doesn’t must have a crappy carrier. 
[QUOTE=Alagirl;8158084]
UPS and FedEx drop parcels off by the front door.
USPS doesn’t.
My mail lady honks the horn when she has something that can’t go in the mailbox.
But then again, I live in suburbia.[/QUOTE]
I am one of the first people to complain about the USPS as my experiences with them are less than warm and fuzzy, but even I will say that the USPS will deliver packages that they can not physically force into my mail box (sometimes so much so that I have a very hard time getting them out and that darn ‘do not bend’ across the package is ignored) to my front porch and my house is 100’ from my mail box.
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