Deliver boxes to post office

Have you tried asking the post office if they will pick up your boxes? In the Continental US the post office for a flat fee of $12.50 will come to you home and pick up any number of boxes.

You can go right to the USPS web site and schedule the pick up.

Jim

I'm guessing Jim that you don't live here?

Most of St. Thomas doesn't even get home delivery of their mail...it's not even available!

EDIT: (there should be a *smile* in there too).

Post Edited (05-26-04 05:49)

Jim

Have you tried looking up USVI local post office info on the Post Office web site? Go to usps.com and click on locate a post office, then enter Christiansted, VI 00820 and click on the Locate a Post Office button. The site tells you that they can't find that address, most likely because they don't have street data for it yet!

With that, it seems pretty unlikely that they'd offer home pick up for islanders. *smile*

HipCrip

Can't put my finger on Debbie's number but try Stephanie Brown and Hassle Free Services - 774-7986. If Stephanie can't help she will turn you on to someone who can.
Pamela.

I don't know what URL/ web site you are going to but when I go to

http://pickup.usps.com/pickup/ and enter my zipcode on St Croix 00820

it lets me proceed. While the post office wouldn't let me select today or Friday for a pick up it selected the next available date for a pick up which is June 1st.

I don't have anything to ship on the June 1st so I can't prove the post office will perform this service on St Croix.

How about a little more research and a little less rhetoric. It is a very convenient service and it would be beneficial for someone to actually put the PO to the test.

Jim

Jim, are you really serious?
Perhaps things are different on STX?
On STT, most residences do not have home delivery, because there are no mail carriers who service those residences and, indeed, no carriers available to service those residences.

I've only lived here 9 months, but I've never met anybody who had home delivery.

Onika:

We are not talking about home delivery.

For the fee of $12.50 per pick up the post office will send a truck to your home or business and pick up any number of packages.

The post office is also promoting click and ship at usps.com/clicknship.

Why don't you try the URL I previously posted and see if the mailman shows up.

I know things are different in the VI, but I don't know how much flexibility the post offices on the VI have to pick and choose what services that they will provide.

Jim

Jim,
Home delivery was discussed because...
If there is no home delivery because of infrastructure and lack of mail carriers available to provide home delivery, I find it difficult to believe that the VI USPS would nonetheless come to your home to pick up a package for the minor fee of $12.50.
I do not think it is such a stretch to come to that conclusion, but perhaps one of the life-ling residents could provide some feedback concerning the feasibility of pick-up.
Ronnie?

BTW, the Post Pffice down here is quite adept at picking and choosing its hours, although they may be directly contrary to the USPS in Seattle or SF or NYC. I can very well imagine that it may have opted out of pick up as well.

Post Edited (05-28-04 05:02)

In 7 years I have never heard of pick up from the USPS and I believe one time I did try to get them to do so. STT STJ STX different world than the US mainland. It isn't rhetoric it is just fact, Jim....smile come down and check it out!

Even if they did offer it, I sure wouldn't want to depend on it on moving day! It sounded from the original post that this needs to happen on a specific day. Almost nothing happens on time in the VI.

Hi everyone! Thanks for all your input! Didn't bother to call the post office. I believe Onika hit it right on the head with her comments! And Stephanie at Hassle Free didn't bother to return my call, soooo..... we're hiring a co-worker who has a van to move the boxes for us. I'll take this time to thank all of you for your participation on this board. It's been very informative and insightful, although I personally did not find STT to be the happy, carefree place this board sometimes portrays it to be. It's a matter of perspective and what is important to one in life. For me, it's important to be valued and respected, to feel safe and to have faith in the local government. I could not respect myself were I to lapse into a state of complacency about my surroundings or to develop a "that's the way it is here" attitude. All in all, this has been a valuable, mid-life learning experience which is pointing me now in another direction. I wish all of you the very best life has to offer.

Doglover,
I am sorry that STT was not all that you hoped it would be. Pity too, b/c I can tell by your handle that we could have been great friends! (I LOVE dogs).
Best wishes on your journey and safe travels!

Hello Folks,

Speaking for St. Thomas. There are in fact carriers that deliver mail to residential areas and to businesses. So delivery is possiable and has been for a long time, its just not as common as neighborhoods on the mainland where everyhouse on the block has a mailbox at the end of the walk or driveway. As for sending mail out I only have experience as a business and our mail man always took our letters and packages as long as they had the postage and customs forms already filled out on them and if you have several packages (I am only sure for Priority Mail) you can arrange for them to come pick them up for a charge if its outside of their regular delivery time, I think the charge is $12.50 as mentioned.

Now what I didn't know was the range of which they deliver mail as I am only personally familiar with the delivery in a few areas that I have actually received mail myself, seen delivery people delivering mail or had friends receiving mail. So I called. The lady that answered at the Main Post Office was very helpful. She said that home delivery is possiable and that the Post Office is currently working to make it more available in areas like Fortuna and Bordeaux where it currently is not available but that other areas already have and have had home delivery for quite some time. She said I would need to call back during the workweek and ask the Carrier Supervisor to confirm my address was available for home delivery. I then asked whether I could arrange for them to pick up my mail if it already had the postage on it and was ready to go and she said she knows they do this for Express Mail and she believed that if there were numerous packages that it could be arranged for a fee but could not be certain as it wasn't her department so asked for me to call back and confirm with the Carrier Supervisor.

So its possiable to receive mail just not everywhere and pick up at businesses is a yes for a charge if its not on the regular delivery schedule time - will check back next week for residential pickups.

--Islander