We live in an area that has no USPS mail delivery, consequently we have a PO Box in a town 17 miles from our home (nearest post office) in different town than our physical address. Making purchases that deliver with UPS or FedEx has never been a problem, nor has delivery via USPS. As long as we know which, we can provide the appropriate shipping address. However, when a seller states UPS deliver and we provide the physical address and it turns out they use UPS Sure Post, the item goes to a post office in a different town. The post office calls it "undeliverable" and returns to sender.
We realize this is rather a unique problem. "You don't have mail delivery? How is that possible?" Believe me, places like ours exist all over the country. We had the same situation at our previous address, but there we were lucky enough to have physical address and postal address in the same town/zip code, but not here and now.
Listings need to be clear on what method of shipping they are going to use! (By the way, in our experience, SurePost is a lousy delivery method, almost always taking days longer.) Someone suggested getting another PO Box in the same town. First of all, it's even further away; second, box rental prices have gone nowhere but up and they ain't cheap anymore! If anyone has different suggestions, we'd be glad to hear them!
Sorry for the rant, thanks for reading!
