“I buy nearly everything I need from Amazon on Prime. Sometimes they’ll pass the shipment off to UPS, and then UPS determines it’s better to hand off to the post office at terminus (locally).’
Good that it works out for you. In my area — and I recently read that it is by no means unique, the post office delivers mail regularly around 8 pm, yes, I do mean 8 in the evening, so when I am waiting for a package, I have to wait with an open door, to make sure the package won’t stay out all night and may or may not still be there in the morning or sometimes the Mailman won’t leave it, because it’s evening, and I have to go to the post office to pick it up.
I am right at the point to call, instead of just order on the internet and ask how their delivery works and if they won’t send it to me via UPS or FedEx ALL THE WAY, I will tell them that I will buy it from someone who will.
The only non-deliverable notice I have ever gotten is when something I’ve ordered on Amazon happens to come from Hong Kong or Shanghai or the like, and that hasn’t happened lately, even with some items from there...
I do get stuff from UPS and they ALWAYS say they’ll deliver by 8PM, but I always get an email that night telling me it has been delivered and I step out the front door and get it. My post office always delivers before 3PM.
PS — I live in a large city, not in some out of the way place, so there is not excuse for the post office to deliver mail in the evening, instead of during the day.
Inspector general to probe late mail delivery
The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General’s office said Wednesday that it is launching an investigation into the shift in mail delivery to evening hours, a change that’s alarmed letter carriers and customers.