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lifestyle:packages [2024/06/03 22:19]
frater_secessus [USPS General Delivery] |
lifestyle:packages [2024/06/03 22:30] (current)
frater_secessus [USPS General Delivery] |
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| ===== USPS General Delivery ===== | ===== USPS General Delivery ===== |
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| If the local Post Office offers the service (ask the postmaster or [[https://tools.usps.com/locations/home.htm|look up the services the PO provides]]), you can send your USPS delivered mail/packages there as General Delivery. USPS offers GD as a service to transients.((https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2013/pb22375/html/updt_006.htm)). | If the local Post Office offers the service (ask the postmaster or [[https://tools.usps.com/locations/home.htm|look up the services the PO provides]]), you can send your USPS delivered mail/packages there as General Delivery. USPS offers GD as a service to transients.((https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2013/pb22375/html/updt_006.htm)). |
| At the counter give the clerk your ID and ask if there is any General Delivery mail for you. Since the items will be held on a shelf in the back it might help to say "it's a manila envelope" or "a letter" or "a package about //this big//" to help them find it easily. Easy for them is fast for you. | At the counter give the clerk your ID and ask if there is any General Delivery mail for you. Since the items will be held on a shelf in the back it might help to say "it's a manila envelope" or "a letter" or "a package about //this big//" to help them find it easily. Easy for them is fast for you. |
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| | * If they find it they will scan the tracking (if applicable) and hand the mail and your ID back to you. |
| | * If they //don't// find it may not have arrived yet, or has arrived but hasn't been unloaded from the mailbags, etc. Give it another day or two and check again. You might ask if there's a best time of day to check again, since the clerks generally know when new mail is sorted. |
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| ==== caveats ==== | ==== caveats ==== |
| * you //will// need photo ID like a DL to pick up the mail. | * you //will// need photo ID like a DL to pick up the mail. |
| * if the PO has a sign specifying hours for GD pickup then honor those hours. This is usually the case only in nomad-heavy areas like [[camping:snowbirding:quartzsite|Quartzsite]]. | * if the PO has a sign specifying hours for GD pickup then honor those hours. This is usually the case only in nomad-heavy areas like [[camping:snowbirding:quartzsite|Quartzsite]]. |
| * call or look [[https://tools.usps.com/locations/home.htmonline]] first to see if the PO in question accepts General Delivery. Some cities with multiple POs only accept Gen. Delivery at one location (typically the main PO). | * call or look [[https://tools.usps.com/locations/home.htm|online]] first to see if the PO in question accepts General Delivery. Some cities with multiple POs only accept Gen. Delivery at one location (typically the main PO). |
| * Postal clerks in urban areas might be unaware of how to put GD addresses into their system. In that case, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/USPS/comments/19du8ty/q_how_to_enter_general_delivery_address_into_the/kj889f0/|this post]] suggests: "Just tell them to skip the street number on the computer by pressing the enter button. Then typing ''G'' and the general delivery address should show up on the screen provided that the zip code is correct. It's not something clerks would know because we're trained to put the street number on mail" | * Postal clerks in urban areas might be unaware of how to put GD addresses into their system. In that case, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/USPS/comments/19du8ty/q_how_to_enter_general_delivery_address_into_the/kj889f0/|this post]] suggests: "Just tell them to skip the street number on the computer by pressing the enter button. Then typing ''G'' and the general delivery address should show up on the screen provided that the zip code is correct. It's not something clerks would know because we're trained to put the street number on mail" |
| * UPS/FedEx/etc //might// deliver to the USPS if the post office's street address is included. This is highly variable and depends on local relationships between the entities. Don't count on it without talking to the Postmaster. | * UPS/FedEx/etc //might// deliver to the USPS if the post office's street address is included. This is highly variable and depends on local relationships between the entities. Don't count on it without talking to the Postmaster. |
