August is my month to begin planning for the winter. Yesterday FedEx dropped off my Christmas cards. I'm not located on a postal route. I could have petitioned to be added to a route but, since I didn't really want a mailbox anyway, opted to just get a post office box. I assume that there is a common address module that vendors purchase and just plug into their on-line sales systems. Every vendor requires the same sort of information so why reinvent the wheel? I usually put both my physical address plus my post office box when ordering on-line. However, some vendors have code to ban the use of post office box information. Doesn't matter if I write out 'Post Office Box' or abbreviate 'P.O. Box'. I've tried putting the post office box info on the same line as the physical address and on a different line. The program will find it and disallow the entire transaction. You would think that for all of the coding it takes to find the various forms of 'post office box', the program could just check if there is a physical address provided and be satisfied. Last night Russell delivered a 2022 calendar I ordered but the post office decided to put in his mailbox. I remember that vendor had not allowed P.O. Box delivery. If the vendor was gonig to use the U.S. Postal Service why not allow P.O. Boxes? I will either a) no longer order from vendors that refuse post office box info or b) suck it up and thank Russell profusely whenever he has to bring stuff left for me in his mailbox.
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I have the same issue when ordering online. (I live a short distance from a post office and have no access to mail delivery). They figure I can walk to pick up my mail. I must have a PO Box. One time I called the vendor that reused delivery to my PO Box and explained my situation. They had no idea that some people cannot have mail delivered to their home and forced my order through their system. Like you, I have just ceased ordering from these companies as someone else always wants my business.
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