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This allows oversubscription. With keys everyone needs their own box large enough to hold any parcel they might receive (recall that Amazon sells bass guitars a
by Godel_unicode 9y ago
This allows oversubscription. With keys everyone needs their own box large enough to hold any parcel they might receive (recall that Amazon sells bass guitars and jumbo packs of toilet paper)
- anindha 9y agoMy old apartment had a system with keys. If you got a package they would lock it in the package mailbox and leave the key in your personal mailbox. I think that is what above comment is referring to. It is nice having a notification, so don't believe its over engineering.
- jonknee 9y agoAgain, that's only accessible to USPS and requires a locking box per resident (your mailbox).
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- mrout 9y agoThere's no reason it has to be only accessible to USPS. And what's wrong with just using the standard, taxpayer-funded postal service for everything? It's a useful service where it makes absolutely no sense to duplicate effort and waste everyone's time, money and patience with competition on a pretty simple service. Every other sane country just has a single, taxpayer-owned postal service..
- anindha 9y agoEvery apartment I have lived has a mailbox. Not only accessible to USPS, anyone can use it.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoThat is a commonly held falsehood. It is against the law for anything other than postage-paid US mail to be placed in a mailbox. https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/tx/2010/tx_2010_0909.htm https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/tx/2010/tx_2010_0...
- Spooky23 9y agoI rented a PO Box for years. They have big parcel lockers and the the key in your box, once you open the parcel box, you cannot remove the key.
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