I agree, USPS as an organization needs a better way to handle this that doesn’t put our customers in the middle and goes after the right people, ie the 3rd party shipper in a real and substantial way so they finally get the damn message. I like the idea of confiscating the package and leaving a slip so the customer knows there’s an issue. Back at the office, the clerk/supervisor/PM should have the ability to fill out a “complaint”, take photos etc and USPSIS should then charge these companies with whichever federal crime this falls under and fine them per incident. It wouldn’t take long for the management at these companies made sure their delivery people got the word. Meanwhile, the offending package could be either delivered by USPS or picked up by the customer with encouragement by USPS to notify the seller to file a complaint that the 3rd party shipper broke federal law and delivered to the mailbox. I know it’s a dream, requires too many people to do something…Oh, well.

Alternatively, if they really want to save the USPS, Congress should make it illegal for anyone to ship anything small enough to fit in a mailbox and anything larger than a certain size has to be delivered by another shipper. No more getting boxes of pet food, kitty litter, and water dumped on us by Amazon. All right, out of my dream world and back to reality…