Petersburg's residential mail delivery is to the door step, and 26 percent of the homes have curbside delivery. There's a pride in what we have, and if you put a silver mailbox with a stick on it in the ground, you can't tell me that's pretty.' 'It's so much neater to leave it the way it is. 'I think they look cruddy,' said Jean Bomonti, a Pinellas Point area homeowner. Many residents say they're inconvenient, ugly and vulnerable to thieves and vandals. Public sentiment, according to several neighborhood groups, is against the bread-loaf-size boxes. Petersburg streets in the last two years and worries that they are going up citywide. As ecommerce and the corresponding package delivery continues to increase, the larger mailboxes provide additional convenience to customers, particularly during the holiday season.His words to one of the city's largest neighborhoods were important because of increasing concerns about curbside mailboxes rising along St. Next generation mailboxes are popular with customers and are designed hold multiple packages, letters, and magazines. The letter suggested customers may wish to install the larger mailboxes but did not state there was a requirement to change mail receptacles. “We apologize for any confusion relating to the letter residents in Williamstown received about next generation mailboxes. The letter reads, “We strongly encourage you to upgrade your mailbox to a jumbo-sized mailbox to avoid missed packages this holiday season.” So he was stunned to get a letter from the Post Office telling him it wasn’t big enough.”It’s threatening to not deliver your packages during the holiday season if you don’t get a larger mailbox,” he said. Some want to know why and whether this request is even legal.Ĭhris Dowdy recently bought this heavy-duty curbside mailbox for his home in Grant County, Kentucky. Hundreds of Northern Kentucky homeowners are receiving a letter from the Post Office telling them they need to upgrade the mailbox at the end of their driveway.

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