Forest of the Plains

Since we are the only residents along our mile of road (except for some goats and coyotes), the post office requires that our mailbox be on the next road over. That means it is .8 mile from our porch to the mailbox.

We recently learned that Post Office Regulations do not allow our mail carrier to deliver packages to our porch because the porch is more than .5 miles from our mailbox. In order for us to receive a package mailed to our street address:
1. The mail carrier leaves an official form in our mailbox notifying us that there is a package.
2. We must drive to the post office that is 11.4 miles from our house.
3. We then present our official form to the desk clerk and receive our package.

We do have a Post Office Box in the town where John works, a different town than our local post office. It is much more convenient for us to get mail and packages at our PO Box. Dealing with the larger post office isn’t as easy.

So, this is my round-about and lazy way of asking people who mail us things to use the PO Box instead of the street address. Thanks!