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In mid-September we ordered a new truck dashboard that was shipping USPS. We were able to track it to Bell Gardens CA before it just disappeared into the black hole of 'travelling to destination' on September 26th. After three weeks of no updates, and the seller being unable to get any information out of USPS, the seller agreed to send us a new one at no cost to us. The day the seller was going to ship the replacement, the original dashboard appeared in Pahoa. I wish USPS would be truthful with estimated delivery date. I understand that this was a bulky item, but no information for a month was ridiculous.
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in my part of Kapoho she would only need one address
Yes: some subdivisions are fortunate enough to have street addresses that can receive USPS mail. This proves that it's at least possible. The rest, well, too bad/so sad, no mail for you.
Yet another thing that should be part of "mandatory" real estate disclosure.
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I don't know if this is germaine to this thread but I've had multilple instances of shipping with the USP/USPS combo that were downright wacky. Tracking showing a package going from here (Sacramento) to San Pablo, then up north to Washington, over to Illinois, on to somewhere in New England, back to Illinois (there were approximately 12-14 stops) before it got to its final destination in Texas. The on-line tracking list showing it's travels around the country was just ridiculous.
This instance was for something I sold on eBay. The buyer thought I was pulling something so I ended up calling the post office. They actually have inspectors (or was it investigators?) and I opened a case with them. The package finally arrived, but from what I gleaned it's possible items are bulked together and get passed around from one facility to another as stuff is added and removed, and the handoff from one carrier to another can add several days to the shipping time.
And this is just on the mainland! I can't imagine adding the complexity of dealing with the Hawaii logistics.
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I can't imagine adding the complexity of dealing with the Hawaii logistics.
UPS and FedEX manage, somehow. Maybe USPS just doesn't charge enough?
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Originally posted by HI_Someday
I don't know if this is germaine to this thread but I've had multilple instances of shipping with the USP/USPS combo that were downright wacky. Tracking showing a package going from here (Sacramento) to San Pablo, then up north to Washington, over to Illinois, on to somewhere in New England, back to Illinois (there were approximately 12-14 stops) before it got to its final destination in Texas. The on-line tracking list showing it's travels around the country was just ridiculous.
This instance was for something I sold on eBay. The buyer thought I was pulling something so I ended up calling the post office. They actually have inspectors (or was it investigators?) and I opened a case with them. The package finally arrived, but from what I gleaned it's possible items are bulked together and get passed around from one facility to another as stuff is added and removed, and the handoff from one carrier to another can add several days to the shipping time.
And this is just on the mainland! I can't imagine adding the complexity of dealing with the Hawaii logistics.
This was similar to our experience, we ordered an obscure part for the demand hot water heater not available here. Our tenant was going to install it, so we used their cluster box address since the ordering page showed it was shipping USPS, then it got sent back from Honolulu to the shipper by sea turtle, it disappeared for months and no one would reship or credit us the purchase price because they didn't know where it was. We also opened an "investigation" on the missing package, the weird thing was USPS still showed it as missing after the company finally got the part back and credited us the purchase price and shipping cost. so the left and right hands of this hybrid system clearly don't communicate with each other.
The second time our tenant ordered the part (because they wouldn't ship to us unless we paid again) and included both addresses and it got here within a week. But our tenant just had an IPad gifted to them by a family member that was shipped and returned 4 times before their family member grasped the fact that people really do have to have 2 addresses to get a package from the mainland. Christmas shipping is going to be a real mess this year is my bet.
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Originally posted by Lee M-S
I use street address as first line, PO Box as second line. Post Office and FedEx/UPS all seem to be good with that.Only have a problem with when some computer program kicks out any address with the word "box".
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Try adding the word "or" before "PO Box" - that does the trick for me in almost all cases.
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Another trick that works sometimes is to use a zeroes instead of "o" in P0 and B0X.
USPS Hilo claim that they will accept UPS and FedEx packages on your behalf if you sign their form agreeing to service and the items are addressed as 123 Main Street, #your PO box number. Unfortunately, their address isn't in the USPS address verification service that every merchant uses, so it's a "service" they "offer" but never have to fulfill.
In my experience, if somebody tries to ship UPS or FedEx Ground shipment to a PO Box (I don't know why some merchants can do this and some cannot) UPS/FedEx will send a postcard to that PO Box saying a package is enroute and you need to contact them to arrange pickup or delivery.
Unfortunately our physical and PO zip codes are different. Any have an idea on how to put street address first and PO box second when the zips don't match?
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UPS/FedEx will send a postcard to that PO Box saying a package is enroute and you need to contact them
I have experienced this, along with the part where mail delivery takes long enough that the package is returned anyway due to lack of response from the postcard.
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If you know what is happening you can ask UPS to hold the package, but then you have to drive to Hilo to get it and they only hold it for 5 days. You can also get the post office to hold packages that were mailed to a street address that doesn't get mail delivery, but again you need to know what is going on to make the call, and then you have to go stand in line to collect your package.
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Originally posted by shockwave rider
If you know what is happening you can ask UPS to hold the package, but then you have to drive to Hilo to get it and they only hold it for 5 days. You can also get the post office to hold packages that were mailed to a street address that doesn't get mail delivery, but again you need to know what is going on to make the call, and then you have to go stand in line to collect your package.
Or you just pick a subdivision with delivery.
