Posting Items to PO Boxes

[nightcrawler-games]

Hi there,

out of curiosity...  have you guys been having a lot of problems posting non registered items to PO Boxes? 

im asking because i just had a request claiming the item was never received, and in the last couple of months i have been having a few issues with items sent to PO Boxes... im actually considering not posting items to PO Boxes anymore... 

Thank you.

[collect247]

Yes I used to have problems and it was always with non registered mail,so then I always posted registered then the problem stopped.

Im not to sure why the mail went missing and I don't want to speculate about what I beleive was happening if you know what I mean.

So the bottom line is never post without registered post to a PO Box.

[harley_babes_hoard]

I post to Po boxes a lot and never had a problem. 

[*tippy*toes*]

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:

I post to Po boxes a lot and never had a problem. 

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Same. Never had a problem.

If mail to PO boxes is going missing, then you need to speak to the post office as they are the ones that put it in the boxes.

[joethenuts]

are you saying  they would get to the postoffice but some how not go into the boxes , mmmmm amazing.

[lyndal1838]

Joe, do you understand how PO Boxes work?

The mail is delivered to the post office and the staff are responsible for putting it into the boxes from inside the post office.  If an item is too large they put a card in the box and the box owner has to go inside the PO and collect the mail...the same way a householder has to cllect any mail that is carded at their home address.

The PO staff is quite capable of mislaying items in the PO.

[joethenuts]

thats why i am asking , i know how its done that way. but these posters say the buyers dont get them .so they go missing either in the  postoffice or are they not getting to the postoffice , or do they go in staff bags.

[lyndal1838]

Very rarely do the PO staff steal mail.   It would be very easy to see a pattern of items arriving at the PO but never being received by the addressee.  The PO worker would be sacked on the spot.

Plus, post office staff are subjected to regular searches as are the PO couriers and StarTrack drivers.

Despite the regular accusations of light fingered postal workers it is not as easy as people may think.

[davewil1964]

Not forgetting that presumably the OP doesn't post to a single post office/area.

Online shoplifters who claim the item didn't arrive in their PO box would be just as likely to claim it didn't arrive in their letterbox, so there is no additional risk in posting to a PO box. In fact, for parcels, it gets rid of the chance of a bat stealing the item from the postie or somebody picking it up from the top of the letterbox or the front porch.

[crowsman53]

I used to have a PO Box here in Alelaide and the number of times when I went to collect my mail only to find mail addressed to other PO Boxes. I would always take it in side and hand it over the counter and explain that it was in my Box and not the correct one, The last time this happened I canceled my box because the woman wanted me to pay the postage to have it placed in the proper box..I will not say what I said but it wasn't nice and closed the box there and then.