One day our USPS carrier drove in-between the cones to deliver a packages. Luckily we were on a bike ride in the neighborhood. When we saw this we stopped the delivery person and told her not to come on the driveway because the children play there.
All the other substitute delivery person park the vehicles in the street and walk packages to the front porch. Our carrier decided that she will no longer deliver packages to us because she can not drive on the driveway. Is this possible? We have lived in our neighborhood for over 10 years. Our mailboxes have always been in the same location, on our private road at the entrance to the neighborhood.
About a year ago, we got our road paved. The neighbor put up stakes to prevent the mail lady from tearing up his yard. Are you aware of any regulations on how wide the road must be for them to deliver? Our road is at least two lanes wide — I can make a 3 point turn with my minivan — I just think the mail lady is being a jerk. Is there a regulation I can reference to support our side? Is it allowable to surround the base of the post with a planter as long as the construction does not impede delivery?
Why would the carrier want it any higher? I live in a rural area, my carrier says my box is too small for my volume of mail…do I have to get a bigger one? Our neighbor recently installed a fence blocking a turnaround that has accommodated mail delivery to our 5 rural homes for at least 60 years.
Consequently we are locating locking mailboxes on the road. Four of us know the location is dangerous. We have seen many near accidents over the years—I saw one as i was leaving the school earlier this week, upon which I called the supervisor again and was told that all 5 boxes have to be located in the same place, and, again, that she had chosen it because it was the safest place, but she would try to come out to look at it again.
Two of the three people have placed their boxes because they do not have time to run to the postoffice, and just wanted to get their mail delivered. Is this true? Does she have the authority, or do we need to talk to the Postmaster? Several people have told us to place the remaining two boxes where we want them meeting the placement requirements , and it will be fine.
We need your helpful advice. We do not want to be troublers, but we know that location is the most unsafe location on the road. All the other potential locations do not even have driveways entering the road. You must come to the office and get a new key. Today, I went to check the mail, and all the locks were replaced with new cheap chrome-plated locks.
Pieces of the old locks could be seen on the ground and on top of the mailboxes. I really do not trust them HUD subsidized housing and I worry they may get into our mail. Apparently, according to our mail delivery person, we have a business mailbox in a residential neighborhood. They left a note in the mailbox today, stating that we need to replace it. I think the only reason they say this is because it locks.
We have a locking box because we are on a main road and our house is quite a ways back. We have had the same box for a couple years already. I have been there for 11 years now, receiving mail in the same box. I let this dog play with my 1 year old grandson all the time. This week, I received a letter stating I had to move my mailbox across the street with the other mailboxes that neighbors have moved. It went on to say that if the trash can was blocking the mailbox, I could pick up my mail the next day at the post office.
My trash can when by the street is always on the other side of my driveway behind where the curb would be, in the grass. There is absolutely no way the trash can could prevent her from getting to my mail box, and would only make have to not drive on my yard to get to the next mailbox which is one of the ones moved so it is not an issue any more. My question is can they require me to move my mailbox across the street.
From what I am reading, they can not. We have a mail deliverer who leaves packages on top of our roadside mailbox, and leaves mail sticking out of our mailbox.
We have medications delivered to our home, and IT was laying on top of the mailbox when we got home. We have also had packages waiting for us in the grass by our mailbox. Is this appropriate? What are the regulations regarding antique mailboxes. We recently acquired an older mailbox there is a date from It works well and looks really cool and we would like to mount it curbside and replace our current mailbox.
I rent and the units all share a post rack that holds all boxes. I recently had some mail stolen, is there anything that can be done to require the landlord to secure the mailboxes against theft? I wish I could send you a picture it would be so much easier to explain my question but here goes. A friend of ours has decided to put angled numbers under his mailbox on the angled post.
I say it should be read top to bottom and not left to right??? So then it would be …. How do you say. I live in a rural area of Georgia my neighbor lives around the corner two houses up ,his land has a small strip that comes down behind my land and behind my neighbor on the corner.
I planted grass around my curbside mailbox. And now the post office is refusing to deliver mail. Is that legal? Can I move my legally replace my curbside mailbox with a mailbox that is attached to the side of my house? The mail boxes were installed facing the street, and deemed safe yet the mailcourier came today and turned them around. It is my understanding that all postal approved boxes are to face the street per the USPS guidelines.
We live in a rural area even though there are more than homes in this area. When I asked the gentleman why he said it is being done for his and only his safety is this a good reason or is he just pulling the wool over my eyes? If so, I need the boxes returned to their original position. Our neighbor is putting a mailbox on our side of the road, in the front of our yard.
Who get to determine where it goes and is there any problem with us moving it? We have had a mailbox for over 12 years. For some reason, a new mailman one day decided to put a small package envelope to the rear of my house by a door that is never used.
We have two porches that are in use — one clearly states to use the other. Is the mailman legally allowed to not use the mailbox and put mail elsewhere? Hello, I recently bought a house, located in a golf club community at the end of the street see drawing: ——l , Our house is at the corner on the right side and our mailbox is attached to our house. I received a letter stating. I had to place a mailbox at the end of our drive way. I also noticed that no one else on my street has a mailbox at the end of our drive way.
I spoke with previous owners who stated, they received their mail in the mailbox located on the house. Has regulations changed? I live in an apartment where all the ail boxes are mounted on the wall together side by side. The boxes are to short inside on either side that the neighbors can get my mail from either side of my box. We built a house in It is on a cul-de-sac, we share with five other homes.
We were told by the, then, postmaster, to erect our mailboxes in a row on the right side of the road, as one exits the cul-de-sac. That places the mailboxes across the street away from our residence and about feet from our drive. The bottom of the mailbox is 43 inches above ground level. The front of the mailbox is 7 inches from where the curb swale meets the grass.
It was approved by the postmaster when it was initially installed. I have maintained our mailbox over the years, but, have never changed the structure or placement.
Other families have come and gone. Some of the other mailboxes have been changed out. A couple months ago, our new carrier started giving us written notices that our mailbox is too far from the road. The messages instruct us to move our mailbox closer to the road to conform to the others in the line. Ours, currently, is about inches further from the road as compared to the others.
This last week, we have received absolutely no mail, which is highly unusual. I will be at the Post Office bright and early tomorrow to have a discussion with them about this. Mobility has become a large issue. I retired after five years as a firefighter and 35 as a law enforcement officer. What do you think? Our address is in one steeet but our mail box is on a different street. We seem to always miss mail due to that issue.
Can we move the mail box to the actual street that is our address is? Is their a hieight requirement for wall mounted mail box? We live in central texas and the apartment management says its legal to have it that high.
Our carrier is afraid of our dog in the fenced-in yard and the mailbox hangs on the outside of it. He refuses to deliver mail on many days although the dog is not a threat. We live in a large city and most streets have walk up delivery like ours but only two blocks away they have curbside delivery. Is it possible to put a curbside box at our location, when all others are walk up? The mail carrier told me that I cannot open my mail box if she is still delivering mail.
I live in an apartment. So if she is at one end of the mail room putting mail in the boxes, but MY MAIL box is closed…am I not allowed to access until she leaves? I use a PO box and have submitted a change of address card from my residence to the PO box even before the house had completed construction. I do not wish to receive mail in my mailbox, but live in a neighborhood with mailboxes defined by the HOA. The postal service continues to place mail in the box. May I place a lock on the box or place something inside that prevent letters from being delivered?
I live out in the country and my mailbox is on the opposite side of the road is there anyway the I can have it moved to the same side of the road my place is on. Several people in my town and on my street have there curbside mailboxes bricked. I would like to get mine done is this still allowed? We have a shared private drive. When putting up a new mail box which side of the current box should the new box be placed?
The number of address will be higher than the other address. Is there a rule about sharing a mailbox? My parents and my brother and sister in law have been sharing a mailbox for months. Both addresses and are marked on the outside of the box and it is a large box. It has been something constantly since she started delivering for us.
What is the vertical clearance required for access to a CBU? The CBU is between two properties down the street a couple houses. I would be happy to prune it up. Silly question but we are dealing with the USPS.
My house number is 7… I plan on getting a custom mailbox with the number Will this be a problem with my mail delivery? Is there a rule for leaving the mail delivery person a little note on the outside of the mailbox? Since USPS got the Amazon bid our Parcel Lock Boxes fill up pretty quickly and there are not enough of them to deal with the increase in packages and the number of our residents. Is there a statute preventing this? My address is on one street, while my mailbox is on a different street.
I explained to them if I put a box on the corner he would just have to kind of do a half circle on my road then a half circle on the other road. It is very painful to walk in my yard. Any suggestions? We have a rural mailbox that we put up. Can I have a neighbor once a month drop off some papers, which I would retrieve before mail would be delivered? The section of my town that I live in is only accessible by entering into the next town over and then crossing back to my home town.
Are rural carries permitted and or required to cross town lines to deliver mail for their coverage area? I have two defunct mailboxes there are notices from the USPS that says they are defunct in front of my recently purchased house. The boxes are right beside my own mailbox and are not on my property. My mailbox is on the same structure as a few other mailboxes, but my mail keeps getting stolen and broken into. I can just buy a locked mailbox and install it there myself? I guess as long as it fits?
Does my mailbox have to be installed before my driveway apron or after my driveway apron on the roadway. I work out of my home we live in a single-family home in a city, I have a room that is my office. I was wondering if it would be possible to put out a second mailbox on our house that has my business name on it. Basically, I would like to keep my business mail separate from that which might be brought into the house and misplaced etc.
I am guessing I would probably need to talk to the P. Office about it first? My fiance and I are currently renovation our new house and have yet to move in, but started getting mail to that location, and was told we needed to get a mail box previous owner must have taken theirs. We went out and purchased a wall mounted mail box, because they are cheaper and we have already invested enough money into this house. Now we are getting notes saying we need to get a curbside mail box, but our post master is a very rude man and insists we have to make it a curbside.
From our previous experiences with curbside is that during the winter, they get covered with mounds of snow or the snow plow will knock them over, and we are stuck to replace them adding more expenses, and all we really receive is junk mail. Do we have any legal rights to keep our mailbox on the wall by front door? I find this to be ridiculous. Most of our mail is junk mail that we just throw away, because we do paperless billing. There is a mail carrier that walks around to the other houses on the block so I know it is a safe area and very accessible for him or her to walk up and put our mail in the mailbox.
Me and my roommate have a house together. Is there something I can do. Do I need to notify the post office when I switch from a curbside mailbox to a mail slot in my front door? All my neighbors have curbside boxes…. Recently two of my three mailbox keys have disappeared and I am almost sure they were stolen by a disgruntled family member that used to live with us.
As this family member is a criminal already, I would like to have a new lock installed along with new keys for it. My gated community has privately-owned roads. We have a problem with cars blocking the boxes during delivery times. Where can we receive a definitive answer before paying to have the signs printed?
My wife planted daffodils around four adjacent mailboxes, including our own, that are on the road between us and the property to our north about 5 years ago. New neighbors moved into the house north of us a couple years ago and this past week dug up all the bulbs, even as my wife was explaining to them that she purchased them and they are her property. His mailbox is the first to the north and ours is the 4th to the south but he dug up all the bulbs, including around our mailbox.
The other 2 mailboxes belong to neighbors across the street and they never had a problem with the landscaping. Can you share a mailbox with your family that you share the same driveway with? Is there a form that both families can sign that can allow this? My parents have a brick mailbox and we can not find the same brick to add to theirs and they are gone all week and come home on the weekends and so I pick their mail up anyways.
Is there a way to make it possible to share? I thought mailboxes were private property plus, we have seasonal residents on the road that two of those boxes belong to. Is it common for mail carriers to suggest reassigning mailboxes, is that allowed?
My community of 1, single family homes is planning on replacing our present, standard type, curbside mailboxes with new ones that have spring loaded doors. Are spring loaded doors on curbside mailboxes legal or not? In the event that they are not legal what are the possible penalties, if any, for the homeowner, the seller and the installer?
My local postmaster recently informed me that they could no longer deliver mail to my wall mounted mailbox and that I needed to install a curbside mailbox. They sent me a letter stating that the prevailing method of delivery in my neighborhood was curbside delivery. Well I drove around my neighborhood and there are very few curbside mailboxes!
Why am I being singled out? Are they allowed to do this? We purchased a home 3 months ago on Salem Oregon and there is a cluster box on the curb between our house and the neighbors. The curb space for the box is small enough that a mini car can not fit within the space which leaves people blocking our driveway.
The neighbors drive up, block our driveway, then often reverse fast and are off to their homes. We have a 6 and a 4 year old; the neighbors have a 4, 2 and 6 month old. This seems like a major safety hazard. There are plenty of other places along the street that the cluster box would be more appropriate and safe.
Hi I am reading up on the regulation here and had a question. I have three packages in the larger lockers of the mail box and the key has not been placed in my mail box. What other steps can I take to try and retrieve the packages? I have already reported to my local USPS about it.
Is there a way the locker can be open to see if my packages are there or do I need to start asking neighbors? I have been losing sleep over this any help would be great.
We own property and it is vacant because we moved out. We are currently doing some repairs, and it is empty, and no one claims it as their residence as in rented, and now lives in it or receives mail at the location. Can the post office legally still allowed to leave mail. Also… I have put up no tress passing signs because i am so tired of the mail carriers leaving junk mail like occupant news papers.
Is it legal for me to remove the mail box so they cant stuff trash in it? No one…. Is it legal for me to remove the mail box so they dont deliver the occupant junk mail, mostly newspapers? The post office representative says it is illegal for them to deliver mail to an old address if the address of the person has moved? Is old junk occupant mail allowed to be put in the mail box of a house that exhibits no trespassing signs?
I want to do it right but its so annoying to pull weekly occupant mail out of the mail box. Hi, our neighbors have recently either backed into their mailbox or have decided to demolish it. They have replaced their existing mailbox with a metal rod and have hung an orange bucket from it. Is this up to code? How could it be reported? Today I got a note on my mailbox that said. Is this legal to with old my mail in a one family owned semi detached house?
After having our mail box knocked over for the third time, we rented a post office box. The post office refuses to deliver large packages to our home, because they say there is no mailbox.
Our street number is clearly displayed on a wooden post near the end of our driveway, about 3 feet from the edge of the road. Is this just the mail carrier not wanting to deliver the package or is their determination correct? I would like to get a roadside mailbox where the access door is hinged at the top, so it lifts upward, rather than dropping downward.
Is there any rule on which way the door opens? I recently switched from a P. Box to curbside. The postmaster approved the post position but will not approve the mailbox I installed. Our postmaster is insisting that we install a T4 box which costs about 80 bucks. I cannot find any paperwork from her stating it is mandatory for me to use the T4 box. There was no mass mailing touting the benefits of said box and no one else is being forced to change out their old boxes for this new one.
My mail delivery is being with held because of this. Does the postmaster have a leg to stand on? Hello, Am I allowed to have a mailbox on my property if there is a cluster box down the street? Lock is broken. Trip in for new form wasted as we had to have mail key to be allowed to fill out form. Mail carrier refuses to deliver packages to house while lock issue continues. I live on a very big piece of property with three houses on it and not very close together all 3 houses have to use the same mailbox because we are all on the same address is there a way i can get my own mailbox?
With my mail coming to it? How would i do that? Please reply asap. What are the rules if my door falls off my mailbox when the carrier is delivering mail, or the whole box falls off a rotted post while the carrier is trying to put mail in it?
I need to convince others your website is correct. Is a town aloud to make you get a p. Most people live on one side of the street where their house is located, sitting on the lot of land they own. Their mailbox is then across the street on property belonging to someone else.
Can the post office make me move my box to the other side of the street.. Box has been there for over 18 years. Hello, Reciently someone hit my mail box. I got a not in the mail from the post office stating i had 30 day to replace it and I had to purchase the news TGen4. I did replace the box with a regular standard box. Then i got another letter saying if i dont buy the newest one my mail will be with held.
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