I live in the country and I have a P.O. Box number. I also have a 911 address but it is not verifiable by the US postal system. Many of the sweeps I try to enter come up sorry no p.o. boxes. I use both my 911 address and my p.o. box address on my sweepstakes. I wonder how many wins I have been disqualified from because my address is not verifiable with the US postal system.
I filed a complaint with our local post office but I lost because the post master claimed we have too many curves in our road for home mail delivery. The truth is that their is only one curve in our road. To make matters worse the houses on the upper road right up the street from us which are walking distance to the post office all have home mail delivery. I wonder if I have any other options?
Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do?
Ethel From PA
One option you have is to open up a mailbox in the nearest town that would have such a place (i.e. Mail Boxes, Etc.). These places, although they are technically postal boxes, your actual address would be a street address (such as: Jane Doe, 123 Oak Street, #340, Big Town, AR). You could then drive into this town on a regular basis, and pick up all the mail you have sent to that address (like contests, rebates, etc.).
Or, you could schedule a once-a-week forwarding of all the mail received at this mail box place, to your actual PO Box where you live. The mail box place would package up all the mail, say, at the end of the week, then mail it to you. I used to do that...I lived in Arkansas, but had an active mail rental box in San Francisco. This place would then send me collected mail on a schedule I chose. This is perfectly legal and provides you with a private address to use as well. (Now, don't ask me why I wanted this sort of service...
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