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Yeah, and my post office BOX is not in the same town as my residence. So, UPS transfers to USPS, which has no way of notifying me. And, it only happens sometime
by wrycoder 4y ago
Yeah, and my post office BOX is not in the same town as my residence. So, UPS transfers to USPS, which has no way of notifying me. And, it only happens sometimes - it’s unpredictable. Very annoying, especially since the UPS truck goes past my door every day.
- lp0_on_fire 4y agoThat's by design - SurePost is a last mile USPS delivery service. You get slightly cheaper/ faster service than the traditional USPS methods (because UPS essentially consolidates and forwards the packages to the delivering post office / hub, skipping many of the sort steps a traditional USPS package would take. If you want a brown UPS truck to deliver your package you have to choose one of their "regular" service, like Ground or one of the air services.
- wrycoder 4y agoTake "fulfilled by Amazon". Most of the time they ship by USS brown truck and the package arrives at my door. But, sometimes they use SurePost. My point is that I don't know which ahead of time. It's unpredictable. Or, take some coffee roasters. I suspect they are going to use SurePost, so I give my address as my PO Box. Their system rejects PO Boxes. So, I use my street address. The package gets transferred to USPS and ends up at a post office in the wrong town, since I don't have a mailbox at my residence. The USPS won't let me create a mail forwarding address in my residence town, since "I don't have a mail delivery address there", Catch-22. In addition, SurePost claims to accept PO Box addresses, but the vendor's software doesn't know that. And, I don't have a way to tell the SurePost system what my postal address is. Same deal with the Fedex equivalent.