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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Hitch, question.. in the picture you posted of the community mailboxes, I see the larger space for larger mail items to go such as packages and large envelopes. Do none of your orders from Amazon fit in that cubbyhole? We have the newer community mailboxes and occasionally the larger cubbyhole does get used for something that won't fit in the normal small space.
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Wolfie:
Some do, some don't. For example, I purchased some keyboards--didn't fit. Too long. I purchased a big sack of cat litter--ditto. The Box isn't that large, really. A few print books? Sure. But anything weird-sized or shaped, nope. I could never buy something large, like say...a box of pots and pans. Or a larger TV. (I know that these would be unusual, just picking items). I purchased something large-ish lately, and I had it sent to my private PO Box, just to be on the safe side, and sure enough, it was shipped USPS. If I'd sent it to my home, it would have gone to the USPS station, and waited.
It's a weird scenario when you can't be comfortable ordering something until you know precisely what SIZE it and its packing material is/are, and whether or not it'll fit in your damn mailbox or the community "bulk package" mailbox. Particularly when you're
paying for it to come to the door. I guess, push comes to shove, I'm paying for convenience, not INconvenience. I wouldn't mind (and don't) schlepping the half-mile down to the community box; but I do mind that damn drive to the USPS station. It's around a mountain, down a freeway, over and up, and the lines there are ALWAYS egregiously long. Always. Never been there when they weren't. I don't mean 4-5 people, I mean a dozen or two.
And I shouldn't HAVE TO. That's the thing. If they'd tell me upfront that they were going to use USPS, I'd find another place to buy it, or shop locally. I'm not asking them to change everything "just for me," but if those of us in that situation could know, pre-shipment, WHAT the carrier is, we could abort the purchase in time. Really, that's the thing, isn't it? PRIME is supposed to be convenient, 1-2-day shipping. Not a game of shipping roulette, with ME having to do all the heavy lifting of emailing the vendor, if there is one, asking how it's being shipped, etc. Why should I pay for PRIME if I have to do all that? Why is the onus on me, all of a sudden?
Yes, I could repeatedly order things, get the green slip, call Amazon, tell them I'm not going to go pick it up, make them send me a new one via UPS, (which I've done), but who needs all that brain-damage? I mean, talk about something going Tango Uniform!
{shrug}
Hitch