If the post office is closed, you can ship a package and buy stamps. Should the customer lose all copies of the keys, the USPS will need to install a new lock that the customer must pay for directly. In recent years, the Postal Service has been struggling to manage mail deliveries. Please advise. Trucks filled with the blue metal boxes alarmed Oregon residents in Portland, where four were removed, and Eugene ( 28 boxes) this week. Many people depend on receiving monthly checks and other financial support through the mail, so doing without their mail negatively affects their lives. I tried again Tuesday afternoon and finally got an answer. Simplify your shipping with tips and tricks, region-specific advice, and best practices for using Etsy's shipping tools and services from fellow sellers. if (document.context) document.write ("&context=" + escape(document.context)); 8 Interns : 2 Months : 1 Office Meet Michael! Local: 262-782-6510 Toll Free: 800-571-0147. . Postal Service wants to remind residents that when pop bottles are used as pranks in a mailbox, there are serious repercussions. I had prepaid postage and Ive never had my stuff weighed or be charged additional for prepaid postage and the clerk tried to do that. The cash is just a gimme for the bad guys, while checks make the crooks work a little harder. For no specific reason whatsoever, I'm curious what I should do if, say, I put a package into a blue mail box and it gets stuck half-way down so that the mailbox doesn't open. I tried to say I had a second package with an address and she told me my printed email was the label, and she was wrong, it was instructions to me as to where it would go. A Blue mailbox is a collection Box provided by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The boxes ride belts, and metal arms go across at the right spot, directing them into the trailer. //]]>-->,