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Your observation is contrary to my experience. Where I live UPS and Fedex put packages on my doorstep while USPS leaves them in a post office fourteen miles awa
by hirundo 9y ago
Your observation is contrary to my experience. Where I live UPS and Fedex put packages on my doorstep while USPS leaves them in a post office fourteen miles away. Letters too. Similar stories in other rural places I've lived. Sometimes they don't come for days when the road is bad, but USPS never even tries. I'm pretty sure UPS and Fedex lose money every time they deliver to me, but they do it anyway. USPS never has.
Maybe that wouldn't be true of first class mail as it is for parcels. But we won't know as long as it remains illegal to compete with the USPS in first class.
- Larrikin 9y agoMy experience in the city is that USPS will have a key to apartment buildings and walk ups. I've seen out door mailboxes but everywhere I've lived has had them behind the front door. This means packages are always delivered behind atleast one locked door. FedEx and UPS will ring all the bells and if you're unlucky and no one is home it'll get left in a bush or you'll have to reschedule. I've never had a package stolen, but I've seen the notes left on the front door by unfortunate neighbors.