Does the post office deliver mail ANYWHERE in the world?

Answer 1

Yes, even the Fedex and UPS offices. Haha. anywhere that an address / location can be defined (like the one general store in the village) could get mail for everyone. kinda like in the old days when they delivred to postmasters in outposts and the postmaster knew the people in town or held it unitl someone showed up for it.

Answer 2

The Post Office doesn't personally deliver to every single address. There are remote areas where there are still outposts and General Store arangements where people have to go to pick of their mail.

I know some very mountainous areas in Italy where people have to go down to town to pick up their mail. The poor mailman would probably die from exhaustion trying to hand deliver everything. I have a friend in Brazil, and the mail sent to his family farm must be picked up at a P.O. box in town.

Back in the 1980's there was a very popular tv show called "Norhtern Exposure" about a town in Alaska. Everyone still had to pick up their mail at Maggie's General Store in town.

Here's a Post Office nightmare story for you: Last year, a friend from Slovakia wanted a special ping pong paddle. I sent it to him via airmail, so it should have arrived in under two weeks.

After three weeks, my friend was getting anxious. After four weeks I started investigating, but there was no way to track the shipment. After five weeks, my friend got a notice from the Slovak Post Office: he had two days to pick up a package they were holding for him. One problem: the notice was already expired!

The box was shipped back to me, fairly beat up and half full of stickers and stamps from customs and the post office. There was no real indication why, so I cleaned up the box a little and shipped it back, figuring it was a mistake.

After another month, the box came back to me. This time, the stickers told a long saga of where it had been, but it didn't make any sense. Why wouldn't the postman just deliver it? The address was correct. My friend even taped a note to his door letting the mailman know he was expecting a package.

This time, I sent it back the most expensive way, and had a tracking number. It got there in about five days.

Since it is about 4700 miles from Chicago to Bratislava, and the package made five trips across the ocean, it had travelled 23,500 miles over a course of three months.

All this for a $35 ping pong paddle.

Answer 3

usually yes