Rural Route Mail Delivery Issue?

Question

Does anyone know how the postal service designates something as a rural route? We're building a house in a new neighborhood. This new street is a loop, with 10 homes on the inside of the loop and about 15 on the opposite side of the street. There are currently 3 homes on the inside, and the post office has told them that they are considered a rural route, and they'd have to pick up their mail from the post office--even though the carrier delivers to those homes on the other side of the street. This is not a rural area--it is a new neighborhood in our town. Anybody have any suggestion on who to contact regarding this issue. We just want our mail delivered as per normal (meaning the carrier delivers it to our home).

We've gone to the post office, and they claim they cannot turn the truck around because they might run over a child! That sounds like the most absurd thing I've ever heard. It is one city block, and I cannot comprehend why they don't just park and walk through the street as they do in every other neighborhood in our town.

Answer 1

call your Congressperson's office and ask for help.

I'm afraid that the USPS is almost stone deaf about consumer issues, so you need someone who can run interference and jolt them awake.

GL

Answer 2

do not understand the place you're at yet the place i'm on the doorways to the publish place of work field section is open till previous due interior the evening. you may desire to make certain what the hours are for that section and not be so worried approximately while the "publish place of work" is open. And NO, you're actually not entitled to rural mail delivery. that style of provider expenses a fortune and for the time of on the present time of value slicing, they're slicing that provider alongside with delivery on on your door (could desire to have a field on the line). In extra contemporary housing advancements, they have an excellent mail field station for each 10 residences and additionally you may desire to stroll to the station to get your mail, to not the decrease in front of your place.

Answer 3

you need to go to the post office and speak with the Postmaster. They may only deliver to one side of the street so you may have to have your mailbox on the side they deliver to.

Answer 4

I have to agree with the first answer. If you have never had any dealings with your congressman you will be very suprised at how helpful they are.

Answer 5

all concerns you your neighbors go to main post office and complain of it.