Can I just have US Postal keep my mail at the Post Office?

Question

I am ordering some stuff to my house that I don't want my parents to find out about. Is there any way I can just have USPS keep it at the post office right around the corner and just have me walk over and pick it up? I don't really need to drop 40 bucks on a PO Box for 6 months because it's just one thing. Is there anything I can do?

Answer 1

i actually work for the post office and i suggest that you call or walk in, let the clerk at the window know that your going to be receiving this package at this address and to tell the clerk to notify the carrier who is on your route to hold the package at the post office for you to pick it up

Answer 2

I'm a window clerk with USPS ... and you can't rely on your letter carrier, because they're not always too bright, or they might have a substitute on your route that day that didn't get the message, or the window clerk won't actually give them the message ... too many things to potentially go wrong.

What you need is called GENERAL DELIVERY!  

See if the place you order from will accept a "General Delivery" address ... your address on the package would look like this:

Michael S.

c/o General Delivery

Yourtown, OH  12345 (put down YOUR city, state, and zip)

... and then, after you think it's probably arrived, you just go check at the Post Office in your area that handles the General Delivery mail for your zip code.  They hold it for 30 days before they'd consider returning it to the sender as "unclaimed."

Answer 3

General Delivery requests are at the discretion of the Postmaster. Holding the mail of 1 persons name out of several at a particular address is also at the discretion of the Postmaster.

If you need that Girls Gone Wild DVD so bad, you might just have to spend the money to get a PO Box. You will have to pay for a 6 month period, but if you decide to close the box before 3 months have passed, you can be refunded 1/2 of that cost.