EMERGENCY!!!!

[Bob and Liezl 0]

I'm at the Fedex Store right now & I've tried all day to send my first packet. Fedex nor UPS sends to a PO box, so what the heck am I supposed to do?

Does anyone have a quick address for the California Service Center that is a street address?

I seriously want to cry right now. I drove around for 30 minutes looking for this store & now I can't even send it :-(

HELP

Post Office! Send it signature required and return receipt!

[SCFsnoopy 0]

UPS sends to PO boxes - I sent my stuff with them.

UPS agents aren't supposed to accept a package for delivery to a PO box. There are only two entities that have access to a PO box - the agency that leases the PO box to the customer, and the customer who leased the box. If the box is in a post office, UPS has no way to get the package (or letter) into the box.

UPS agents do something screw up, and accept a package with PO box destination address. What happens after that is anybody's guess. Sometimes they hand the package (or notice) to the post office staff to be placed in the box. Sometimes they return the package to the sender. Sometimes they see if they have a physical address on file for the box owner, and then deliver to the physical address. I once sent a box of Christmas gifts to a friend in North Carolina. I went to a "Postal Annex" store that accepted packages for UPS, and used the PO box number my friend gave me. UPS delivered the package to the mayor of the city, who happened to have the same name as my friend.

I know the process that DHL goes through for handling PO Box addresses, and I imagine it would be similar for other courier services...

When DHL receives a PO Box, it gets sorted into a "Bad Address" pile which then gets given to someone (usually a Network Control Agent) to sort out in the morning. If there is a phone number on the shipment, the first step is to call that number to attempt to get a physical address. If there's no answer, they leave a message and try again the next day. If they can't get in contact within 48 hours, a letter addressed to the PO Box will be mailed through the local post with instructions to call the courier base back to give address details.

If there is no phone number on the shipment, a Google search of the business name usually yields a street address, and the shipment will get redirected. If it is a residential/private shipment, usually an attempt will be made to get in contact with the reciever before the shipment gets redirected. If all else fails and they can't get a street address, they'll lodge a trace through the DHL network to attempt to get in touch with the shipper for either new reciever details or instructions to return or abandon the shipment.

Bottom line is, if you send to a PO Box through a courier service, you're leaving your shipment up to a complete stranger to decide where it will ultimately wind up.

[terri and jay 0]

hello everyone ,

i would like to help u out, i work for the post office, we have a contract with fedx and dhl where they delivery their parcel and any mail to the usps and we will deliver that piece of mail even to a po box, just lately we have agree to deliver some of usp mail too, so if we recieve a piece for the po box u can beleive it will be deliver , now if it is deliver to po box pick up can start at 10 o clock am, now they will noticfied that piece a mail that needs to be signed and it is right that some places dont get that mail cause we can only hold on the mail for so long and we have to return to sender now the best way to mail it is a delivery confirmation this is where no signing for but u can check on line of where that piece of mail is and when it was deliver , i hope this helps some ppl out

[Starlight95 1]

Just go with USPS, and Fed Ex comes in handy when you want a respond to an RFE. The wait is still going to be there. This is the easy part of the mailing as there is no deadline. I have to send out my RFE and the only reason I am going to Fed Ex it because they send it to the service center directly and I should get my approval shortly than later.

[jkminney 30]

I'm at the Fedex Store right now & I've tried all day to send my first packet. Fedex nor UPS sends to a PO box, so what the heck am I supposed to do?

Does anyone have a quick address for the California Service Center that is a street address?

I seriously want to cry right now. I drove around for 30 minutes looking for this store & now I can't even send it :-(

HELP

Just go to the USPS and send it overnight. It will be about 17 bucks. They deliver to P.O. boxes

[Eric-Pris 1,607]

I'm at the Fedex Store right now & I've tried all day to send my first packet. Fedex nor UPS sends to a PO box, so what the heck am I supposed to do?

Does anyone have a quick address for the California Service Center that is a street address?

I seriously want to cry right now. I drove around for 30 minutes looking for this store & now I can't even send it :-(

HELP

If you are freaking out so much just before sending your K-1 petition, you won't make it through the whole process. (k-1... AOS... removing conditions...)