Up here no home delivery so when a supplier says ship and they mail it ends up in general delivery at the local P.O.
My actual P.O. Box is in Lake Arrowhead.
The Lake Arrowhead P.O. is a clusterfark where you wait in line, local I can just walk up to the counter.
Rolling over a CD bank mailed the check which was lost.
I had 30 days to roll it over without taxes and penalties but it was 90 days to get another cashiers check.
After raising enough hell they found it sitting on a shelf at the Lake Arrowhead P.O.
I would much rather have my stuff sent GD to the local P.O., Debbie has her shit together the dolts at the L.A post office not so much.
I had one item the seller put the Loma Linda zip code on it (off by one digit from mine) and it went from San Berdoo to Denver and back 3 times before they could find it and get it to me.
30+ days later it arrived broken.
I try not to use the P.O but sellers say ship and then mail, at least it will show up in GD.
The best are the ones who say cannot ship to P.O. boxes so I use my business addy and it ends up at my P.O. Box because they mail it instead of shipping.
Never try to explain to a dullard the difference between shipping and mailing, it is an exercise in futility.

LOL!
Now that is funny considering the advice is coming from someone who lives in New Jersey.

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We ran an escrow company before retirement and I built custom homes on the lake so I never had to do that horrible commute.
Some pics off my back deck.

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No, we pay.

"The congressional franking privilege, which dates from 1775, allows Members of Congress to transmit mail matter under their signature without postage. Congress, through legislative branch appropriations, reimburses the U.S. Postal Service for the franked mail it handles".

Mine were in the P.O. box this morning.
I had to cut one down to a dagger for the mini flipper.

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We got screwed up here, don't get home delivery we have P.O. boxes instead.
Some companies use the postal program to verify addresses, my address doesn't exist to the P.O. therefore they won't sell to me because...well...my house/address don't exist.
Then there are those who ask for a shipping address then proceed to mail the item instead.
This is where Debbie comes in, she knows me and calls when anything with a street address shows up and I go to that P.O. to pick it up.
She enjoys her job so that makes a world of difference.
My billing P.O. is in another town so if it wasn't for her that stuff would be returned to sender.
If a sender gets something back and calls me I try to explain the difference between shipping and mailing, usually an exercise in futility.

This crap has gone on since before I moved up here in '79.
We raised enough hell to either deliver our mail or stop charging for our boxes so USPS threw us a bone and we get free boxes now with proof of residency.

From what I understand about the sort facility in Berdoo they are taking out letter sorters to make room for package sorters that are not ready and will be arriving late.
Also, FedEx and UPS occasionally leave packages at the local P.O. and tracking lets me know they are there so there is some sort of deal with them and the P.O.