Its no different to if you have mail delivery to the mailbox at the end of your driveway is it? If it wont fit in your box, you get a pick up notice.


To be fair to CP its the same if FedEx call and no one is home to sign, but its usually cheaper.


Expecting your customers to clear the snow from in front of your shop front on the other hand is NOT customer focussed, and in effect if they dont clear the snow from the super boxes thats what they are doing.

If someone should slip and fall I imagine there would be some grounds to sue them too.

Wow....where did that come from?

So you put your winter boots on and trudge all the way to the mailbox hoping that this time it's not a 6th wasted journey and you find a key for the bigger box at the side.

Then you carry your parcel home, hoping you don't slip because your hands are full with the parcel and you're ranting and raving that you paid the same delivery costs as other people who had their stuff delivered to their door.

Posted on behalf of Mr Meldrew....who often has a point.

I thought a 'community mailbox' was affectionate term for a girl with questionable boundaries?

True...but individual mailboxes are a lot bigger than those (appear) in the picture posted.

What is your problem now?

When the more expensive service of FedEx comes to deliver something and no one is home to sign, we have to head into town to pick up the parcel, just like when we had a mail box and the mail carrier couldnt fit a package in it.

You know, sometimes its better to type nothing and be thought a fool, rather than hit the submit button and remove all doubt.

Not really, the communal boxes have two sizes for parcels and the larger of the two is about the same size as an oldschool mailbox.

Again....the super mailboxes are right across the street from my front door Call it luck, but that has been the case now in the last 3 houses.

May be I'll get luck again for my next out-can posting?

I just found it ironic that after everything you've said about CP, you found a compromise in how they operate in the end

We are all human in the end mate

Well.....if the parcel won't fit in your mailbox at the house, at least you might be there to open your door and receive it.

This is probably just a hangover from my annoyance in England when I'd miss a delivery through being at work Mon to Fri (that's my fault I know) and then take my card to the PO on Saturday morning to collect the package....only to find they were delivering it once again when I wasn't there to receive it.

Do people realize that you also have the option to have the parcel / stuff delivered to your place of work, or is your work that anal?

Just sayin' innit

The thing is, parcel delivery for me is convenient at home. Not much point in having it delivered to work if I don't work

The minute the snow came, the flyers stopped. I wonder why

My work address is a PO Box number. Deliveries go to a central distribution warehouse. Quite rightly they get mighty pissed when asked to handle employees private mail or packages on top of regular workloads.

I don't know what all the fuss is about having to use a bank of community mailboxes. It really only needs to be a weekly trip to it, and for those of us that live out of city limits collecting a package from a post office is the only way of getting hold of larger deliveries. It's hardly much of a chore.

I hear you bruv'er..but apparently some people have beef with CP wrt this