[NJgal]

I am frustrated! We live in Richmond, and our postal worker leaves any Amazon packages that won’t fit into a locker back at the Lady Lakes post office. We just get a slip in our mailbox saying we must get it ourselves.Talking to a number of other Villagers, I find that many postal workers drop packages off at their doors. Most other places we have lived, Amazon trucks deliver everything. Here, much is carried “the last mile” by the USPS. Problem is - the contracted employees (not regular post office employees) negotiated a new contract that limits their responsibility to 1/2 mile from the postal boxes. We are 7/10 mi.! So 30+ minutes drive one way to retrieve our packages! Anybody else have this problem? Anyone find a solution?

[Kenswing]

That is unsatisfactory for sure. When we first moved into our new village the USPS probably delivered 90% of Amazon packages. They brought just about everything to our doorstep because the postal station boxes filled up so fast. On the bright side there is hope. Amazon will eventually start delivering most of their own packages. We seldom get anything from Amazon delivered by USPS now. I think I would be complaining loud and often to the local postmaster.

[macawlaw]

Not this exact problem. I had no idea that the USPS delivered Amazon packages. In Ohio, the Amazon van delivers directly to the house. I came down for a week to check on our home in TV. I found a pair of tennis shoes that I like and ordered a pair to be delivered to TV (I like to fly with slip-ons). Our mail is forwarded to Ohio until we come down this fall. The postal worker forwarded the Amazon package to Ohio. It took almost two weeks and I owed $13 in postage. Lesson learned.

[FloridaGuy66]

You can choose at checkout to have your larger items delivered to a specified "Amazon drop-off" locker location. The closest to you would be inside the "Save A Lot" in Wildwood.

Fortunately, in my Village which is also south of 44 our postal guy delivers the large items in person.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by NJgal

I am frustrated! We live in Richmond, and our postal worker leaves any Amazon packages that won’t fit into a locker back at the Lady Lakes post office. We just get a slip in our mailbox saying we must get it ourselves.Talking to a number of other Villagers, I find that many postal workers drop packages off at their doors. Most other places we have lived, Amazon trucks deliver everything. Here, much is carried “the last mile” by the USPS. Problem is - the contracted employees (not regular post office employees) negotiated a new contract that limits their responsibility to 1/2 mile from the postal boxes. We are 7/10 mi.! So 30+ minutes drive one way to retrieve our packages! Anybody else have this problem? Anyone find a solution?

Imagine the frustration of the postal worker who gets informed that they MUST start delivering to the doors, all packages that don't fit in the lockers. Imagine that frustration during Christmas week, when their 8 hour day becomes 15 hours long.

Yours is not the only package to arrive at that postal station. The postal station has several hundred homes they're responsible for, and figure at least ten of them have oversized packages on any given day that is NOT Christmas week. Assume at least 30 per day during Christmas week. Now go ahead and demand that the postal worker deliver them all to everyone's house.

And what happens if they start doing that, and someone steals the oversized packages from your doorstep? You know you'll blame the postal worker for not putting it in the locker or bringing it to the Post Office where it can be held securely for you.

[MrChip72]

The root of the problem here is having to drive 30 mins each way to Lady Lake for the packages for the Villages that are part of Wildwood.

Wildwood has grown exponentially in a short period. The population was barely 7000 people ten years ago and now it's over 20k and growing fast. They have postal facilities in Wildwood, but somehow are not setup at the current time to handle deliveries to areas within TV. It just doesn't seem acceptable for anyone to be expected to drive 15+ miles each way to get their oversized package. I would've thought that USPS had a standard set for something like that.

Maybe someone that frequents this forum would know who to best contact to bring this issue up to.

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by MrChip72

The root of the problem here is having to drive 30 mins each way to Lady Lake for the packages for the Villages that are part of Wildwood.

Wildwood has grown exponentially in a short period. The population was barely 7000 people ten years ago and now it's over 20k and growing fast. They have postal facilities in Wildwood, but somehow are not setup at the current time to handle deliveries to areas within TV. It just doesn't seem acceptable for anyone to be expected to drive 15+ miles each way to get their oversized package. I would've thought that USPS had a standard set for something like that.

Maybe someone that frequents this forum would know who to best contact to bring this issue up to.

Your problem isn't with TV or the US Post Office, it's with companies such as Amazon.

The USPS is a government agency and burdened by numerous regulations. Your "mailing address" and "delivery address" are 2 different addresses, based on the agreement with the Post Office. Your "delivery address" is the Mailbox in TV. That's where all your mail goes. If there's no room, it goes to the local Post Office.

If you don't like it, stop doing business with companies that us the USPS for deliveries. It's not complicated.

[FredMitchell]

If you set up your garage door on wifi, you can opt for Key In-garage delivery. Then it won't be delivered by USPS. Further, you won't need to worry about it being stolen.

[ThirdOfFive]

Never been a problem. Amazon delivers by far the majority of the stuff we get from them. Now and again they'll drop it off at the postal station, in which case it either fits in our mailbox or there is a key in our box that opens one of the larger boxes. A few times the stuff they dropped off was too large even for the big box in which case they delivered it to our door.

A nice gratuity at Christmas helps.

[jacksonla]

We have our second Florida home in the Villages and spend a week here and the next week in another Florida town. We didn't get a Village's post box.
When I order next day delivery from Amazon with special delevery instructions (only leave at front door) and give them my Villages address (because I am here) 1/2 the time it goes to a post box we don't have where it sits until USPS returns it to Amazon. I've spoken to USPS and several times to Amazon. I've repeatedly told Amazon that their sub-contractor, USPS does not deliver correctly nor read special instructions. They did agree that USPS does not get or read special instructions. Hopefully this will change soon.

[JGibson]

I could understand them putting a limit on how far they're willing to go to drop off oversize packages to people's doorstep.

USPS is already operating at a loss every year and I would expect even more service cutbacks in the future.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Never been a problem. Amazon delivers by far the majority of the stuff we get from them. Now and again they'll drop it off at the postal station, in which case it either fits in our mailbox or there is a key in our box that opens one of the larger boxes. A few times the stuff they dropped off was too large even for the big box in which case they delivered it to our door.

A nice gratuity at Christmas helps.

When you order something from Amazon with a 1 or 2 day delivery, they rarely use USPS because I don't think USPS can meet the delivery schedule.

[RobertScott]

In Citrus Grove Amazon trucks deliver almost everything themselves. I am zero worried about porch pirates here. Amazon seems to use USPS only for smaller things, or it could be that some items are not "Prime" but "free delivery for Prime customers" and those vendors use USPS.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by RobertScott

In Citrus Grove Amazon trucks deliver almost everything themselves. I am zero worried about porch pirates here. Amazon seems to use USPS only for smaller things, or it could be that some items are not "Prime" but "free delivery for Prime customers" and those vendors use USPS.

Maybe, but when it takes a week or longer, the vender will lose a lot of business. I think Amazon has been so successful because they are able to deliver millions of items in less than 2 days. If an item will take longer than a few days, I usually won't order it.

[MrFlorida]

If it won't fit in the mailbox, or the larger mail box, my postal station brings it to my door. Yes , Amazon will use the postal service at times. Wonder why your postal station makes you go to the post office ?