Not really a rant but...

UPS just left a package in my Mailbox. I thought that was illegal.

Small amazon delivery, UPS ground. Not one of those hybrid deals. I saw the big brown UPS truck stop and him toss it in the mailbox. I don't care otherwise...

I guess it saved him walking up to the house about 130 feet each way while his truck was parked in the road and it is threatening rain but at the front door is sheltered from the rain anyway...

If he is a big enough jack-hole, can't the mail person confiscate anything in the box without USPS postage?

I get things left in my mailbox by UPS. I think it is because they transfer some of their packages to the USPS and then the USPS delivers them.They have a UPS label, but I see the mail carrier dropping them off.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Not really a rant but...

UPS just left a package in my Mailbox. I thought that was illegal.

TTBOMK, it is.

i also get ups packages in the mailbox.

Package delivery companies just can't win.

Amazon and others put things in my mailbox. Technically they shouldn’t but it beats them leaving stuff in bushes, behind the wrong fence, on the street, etc. At this point I’m happy my packages end up somewhere easily found. Don’t think this is federal case worthy.

Mine will do that occasionally.

So fairly common with some of you and I do have the larger box. I'm fine with it. Hope the mail carrier is if the package beats him here.

They just have never done it here before.

Wow... just wow.

I'd rather have a package out of sight and out of the weather.

I guess some just need to vent about nothing.

Andrew

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Originally posted by El Cid 92:
Wow... just wow...

...I guess some just need to vent about nothing.

Andrew

Wasn't venting, said so in the OP... "not really a rant"
and again in my second post... "I'm fine with it"

But I thought it was illegal for them to do so... and it is, so I wondered how common the practice was.

The mail carrier CAN take the package and require you to pay to get it back.
I might be venting then! In this case my package arrived after the mail ran so the mail carrier didn't see it.

The Trump administration was actually proposing a change to allow it.

Here is one case.

...USPS Removes Package from Mailbox, Charges Fee to Get it Back...

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Amazon will sometimes use special carriers to drop off packages to customers and sometimes they'll put those packages in your mailbox, but a local post office says that's not allowed.
And if it happens, they'll take it.

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McSweeney had to pay a postage fee to get her package back. She talked to a manager who said:

"No one is supposed to use your mailbox other than the postal service," she said the manager told her. "I said, 'But this is my mailbox, right?' He said, 'It's your mailbox, but it's our conveyance device.'"

Link

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Originally posted by cparktd:
The mail carrier CAN take the package and require you to pay to get it back.

I've left stuff in the mailbox that wasn't USPS. Sometimes we have agreements with delivery/mail drivers for the smaller packages to be left in mailboxes, especially if there's an aggressive dog or the house a quite a difficult trek to get to. But even if a package were to be removed, it would be returned to the delivery service for appropriate redelivery.

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Originally posted by El Cid 92:
Wow... just wow.

Wow indeed. Beside the fact he clearly wrote he wasn't venting, what part of it being a violation of federal law is unclear to you?

Well...

UPS just dropped a $1,700.03 Amazon order off.
My driveway alarm had alerted me he was here so I met him at the door and said "HI, how you doing?"
Reply was a cheery "Good" as he walked off punching on his clipboard thingy.

Delivery required a signature. He didn't ask for it, I didn't bring it up.

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Originally posted by Rick_Perry:
I get things left in my mailbox by UPS. I think it is because they transfer some of their packages to the USPS and then the USPS delivers them.They have a UPS label, but I see the mail carrier dropping them off.

Exactly what i was going to say. In fact, I got one myself this morning. I do not the think the "law" about putting things beside US Mail delivered by the USPS in a mailbox is as black & white as some people think it is.

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Originally posted by bigwagon:

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Originally posted by Rick_Perry:
I get things left in my mailbox by UPS. I think it is because they transfer some of their packages to the USPS and then the USPS delivers them.They have a UPS label, but I see the mail carrier dropping them off.

Exactly what i was going to say. In fact, I got one myself this morning. I do not the think the "law" about putting things beside US Mail delivered by the USPS in a mailbox is as black & white as some people think it is.

Yeah, but this has nothing to do with OP's case. His was UPS Ground direct, not the UnsurePost (UPS) or StupidPost (FedEx) you guys are talking about.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Delivery required a signature. He didn't ask for it, I didn't bring it up.

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Due to covid they don't require a signature when they get a visual.

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:

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Originally posted by cparktd:
Delivery required a signature. He didn't ask for it, I didn't bring it up.

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Due to covid they don't require a signature when they get a visual.

Oh yea, forgot about having to give 'em 6 feet....
We kind of ignoring that around here.


And no, as stated before it was a UPS end to end shipment. No USPS involved.

Today FEDEX stuffed a small square box into my mail box that just about filled it, there was probably 3/8 of an inch gap.

Fortunately I caught this before our crappy mail woman got there, or she would have not put my mail in my mailbox.
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Better in your mailbox than getting it swiped from your porch.
Wouldn't bother me all.

Better than beer cans, Taco Bell, or human feces.