How to find the nearest Postal Service mailbox
www.usps.com
When you have a letter or a bill to mail, sometimes all you need is a U.S. Postal Service mailbox.
But the familiar blue boxes are getting harder to find. The Postal Service has removed thousands of them nationwide in recent years to cut costs.
The Postal Service website offers a search tool for locating mailboxes, but it’s not easy to find, in part because the agency doesn’t call them mailboxes. No, they’re “collection boxes.”
From www.usps.com “> www.usps.com , choose “Locate a Post Office,” and on the next page select “Collection Boxes” from the drop-down menu (or you can go directly to usps.whitepages.com/collection_box ).
Enter an address or just a ZIP Code to get a list and a map of nearby mailboxes. Click on a mailbox to see pickup times.
From this page you can also search for post offices and find places to buy stamps.
-- Scott J. Wilson
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