11-03-2016, 10:22 AM
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Originally posted by Kapoho Joe
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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.
Ultimately, that is what we did. I really like mail delivery and piped water. But there are not actually enough lots with those amenities to provide homes for all the people who want or have to live in Puna. As long as a termite eaten shack in Hilo or Keaau costs close to $200,000 people will keep living in Puna, and as long as there are only a handful of places with mail and water, people will be forced to live in subdivisions with no mail or water service and crappy "private" roads controlled by HOAs.
My partner grew up in very rural Wyoming (try being a gay kid in cowboy land if you want to become damn thick skinned) and his parents ranch got US mail delivery every single day. I lived all over the country growing up and we always got mail delivery, Hawaii has different rules, supposedly because we became a state after everywhere else, so they didn't bother to give us mail service .