USPS: "Your address is not eligible" for pickup? Really? When did that happen?

[strugglinlikeyou]

Don't know what's going on here. I live in a rural area and local pickup is important, saving me miles of driving to the PO. Could be my local carrier is angry? Scheduled a pick up for one item and then added another item. Geez. I'm banned forever from local pickup?

[wastingtime101]

There are times I've gotten that error message on the USPS site even though I was eligible for pickup. I don't remember what I ended up doing. I think I went to a third party shipping site I had an account with like pirateship.com or stamps.com and scheduled pickups from there.

You could also leave a note in your box with the flag up that there are a couple items on your porch for pickup and the website was having technical issues when you tried to schedule. If you have a decent carrier they shouldn't have a problem grabbing the packages.

[strugglinlikeyou]

Thanks wastingtime101. Will leave tote by mailbox with flag up. Will see what happens. 

Never ending drama over a whole lot of nothing.

[reelworks]

I've been getting the same thing for two days now, it won't take any address, it gives that warning no matter what on the accounts I handle at work and my personal account.

There was some notice about site maintenance the popped up saying that the rate estimator will be down till 8pm Sat. but I don't see that now and that part works.

If its not storm related they screwed something up.

[njfleamarket]

Same here, it won't let me schedule a pick up at either of may address's.

It worked fine on Wed.

It won't go past the first screen option.

[reelworks]

I called the number on their Facebook page and was told that there's a new policy that allows some post offices to not do parcel pickup. A call to the local post master told me there's a major change going on both online and at the local PO level concerning how parcels are handled due to them closing some locations and combining a few others in various locations.  I was told it all should be fixed by next week.

They came out and picked up the packages I wasn't able schedule though but its still unclear as to whether or not the service is going to continue.