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Weird that most of the houses in Puna with mail delivery at the residence are in Lava Zones 1 & 2.
Open question:
If you add up all of the trips to the post office, the driving time, the waiting in line, etc. How many hours per week, month, or year do you spend dealing with mail?
What is the transportation cost (gas, maintenance, etc.)?
How often are you able to retrieve your mail and packages?
How much more money do you think you spend per year due to not being able to shop every online bargain or send every item to a PO Box?
How much time and transportation cost results from acquiring those items at Walmart, etc.?
Everyone's answers will be unique, but hopefully we can develop an anecdotal picture of actual cost and maybe even take it a bit further and discuss the true cost economics of life in Puna with no residential mail delivery service.
Thanks in advance for sharing.
I wish you all the best.
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If you add up all of the trips to the post office, the driving time, the waiting in line, etc.
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I have friends who go to the Pahoa post office every day to check their post office box. Some of them are retired. I cannot grasp as to why they feel compelled to go so often and then they complain about the parking...
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I go to the post office once a week, and when I do, I combine it with my weekly grocery shopping in Hilo, so the only added expense is cost of the box and the gas to get from Target to the airport. This works because there is so little of importance that comes via snail mail these days, and the Frau and I make sure that important packages such as medicine are ordered well enough in advance. (German efficiency, and all that.) Now that Covid has subsided, I rarely have to wait more than 5-10 minutes to collect the packages that won't fit in the box. My only complaint about the Hilo post office (and it's a small one) is that they could really use a lot more lockers.
Would I like home mail delivery? Of course I would, but the lack of it is at the bottom of my list of things I don't like about living in HPP.
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09-24-2024, 05:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-24-2024, 05:41 PM by punikahakaiferret.
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USPS has a free service called "Informed Delivery" which you can sign up for and it emails you daily with a snapshot of mailpieces scheduled to arrive, as well as tracking numbers of packages arriving that day or expected to arrive soon. It is fairly easy to sign up for and use.
I have used it both on the mainland as well as here, and works for both home mailboxes as well as PO boxes.
Could be a help for those folks who daily have to take time to go to the post office to check their box or to know to be on the lookout for something.
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I can't wait to have informed delivery again. I had it at a condo in Hilo in 2018.
I changed the address on my car registrations about 6 months ago. I was having new titles issued and didn't n't want to go through it again.
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I can't wait to have informed delivery again.
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I have it for all 3 places, HI, TX FL. The key is to have a different email address for each location.
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Thanks, that will help because I have it in Ohio.
I can't have it in Hawaii because I use Aloha Mail right now.
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09-25-2024, 04:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-25-2024, 05:19 AM by Punatang.)
Moderator II, I would like to report punikahakaiferret for hijacking my derailment of the previous hijacking of this thread.
I wish you all the best.
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09-25-2024, 06:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-25-2024, 06:25 AM by punikahakaiferret.)
Guilty as charged! There I go trying to be helpful. Gotta go brush up on my trolling skills, eh? ;-D
But srsly, since I don't live in HPP I don't know all the ins-and-outs and minutiae of the struggles with mail there going on forEVER. I'm so very grateful I am where I am and don't have to deal with all that kerfuffle and krap.
So, hopefully my post about Informed Delivery is useful to any who may not have known about it....and going forward I will work harder to just be a big pain in the ass on this forum.
Love y'all! :-D <3
(Seriously, Punatang, I know you are just messin' with me...but I do understand for folks in HPP, the struggle truly is real and not a laughing matter when one is trying to get mail and packages and stave off pirates and thugs. Or deal with surly postal workers).
But oh, yeah! This thread was actually about a PARK! Which since the neighborhood is called Hawaiian Paradise PARK it surely does need one!
But wait, some may say...Hawaiian Beaches has no beaches, nor Hawaiian Shores, shores...
...these really are things that make ya go hmmmm.
K pau fo now. ;-)
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(09-25-2024, 06:06 AM)punikahakaiferret Wrote: But oh, yeah! This thread was actually about a PARK! Which since the neighborhood is called Hawaiian Paradise PARK it surely does need one!
But wait, some may say...Hawaiian Beaches has no beaches, nor Hawaiian Shores, shores...
...these really are things that make ya go hmmmm.
Well, when you put it that way, then wouldn't any new park in Hawaiian Paradise Park have to be called Hawaiian Paradise Park park?
That will really screw up Siri.
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