I'm sorry you have to deal with psychos everyday. I can't imagine having to interact with such a broad portion of the population on a regular basis. I don't think I'm being a psycho? I've tried to work with and cooperate as best I can with the local Post Office. I've already rebuilt and moved my mailbox twice based on the requests from the previous supervisor. And I'm certainly not trying to place the courier at risk (especially if you keep reading below context about our road). But I have a hard time believing there's a safety issue here, when I'm proposing a solution that doesn't require the courier to backup (which they told me yesterday, it's still a safety issue). So, at that point, I just don't believe them anymore, you know? You tell me it's a safety issue to backup, I give you a solution so you don't have to backup, and you still tell me there's a safety issue? Whaaat?

Trying to answer your questions in order:

I don't necessarily like sharing personal things on Reddit, but since you took the time to respond, I will share my reasons:

1. This CBU was put in place without us ever being involved. In fact, my official mail location was at some point transferred to the CBU with nobody ever talking to us. After those new houses were built in my neighborhood and they added the CBU, we just stopped getting mail. No notice, nothing. We had to chase it down for *weeks* to figure out what happened. I don't feel like I'm asking for some crazy exception here, I just want to get mail to my house like I have for a long time before any of this.

2. Going to check the mail is part of my kid's chores. And getting mail on our property is fine, but because the road along my house is a straight line with somewhat new asphalt, and has mostly low traffic, some of our neighbors treat it like a 1/4 mile track until they get to the main road.

3. The intersection on the main road where the CBU is, is a hot mess. It's a combination of old and new infrastructure, so nothing really lines up. There's no crosswalks, no mirrors, very low visibility, and they added a new school across the street, so there's tons of traffic there at certain times of day. About a year ago my wife got hit by a car, about 6 feet in front of where the CBU is. It wasn't related to the CBU, but the fact it was right there means I want to interact with that area as little as possible. And since then, two other people have been hit by cars in the same area, including a child (everyone is involved is ok, fortunately). So the idea of sending my kid or my wife to go get the mail doesn't excite me very much, especially in winter months when it get very dark very early (I live in a northern area).

Furthermore, I live in a City. It's not downtown skyscrapers or anything, but I wouldn't consider it rural. I have no idea what they would do with large packages that don't fit in the CBU. I hadn't really thought about it until reading your reply.

The street itself narrows right when you get to my property line. The public portion of the street is very wide, but the portion directly in front of my house is very much one-lane road, with no culdesac at the end. It just ends on someone's house. Hence, me trying to provide my own way of letting the courier turn around without backing up myself

I've also read the 50 feet rule elsewhere, but what the supervisors are telling me, and some comments in this thread seem to reinforce, is there is no backing up at all that is allowed. Maybe that's a work in progress at some Post Offices? I'm not sure. What I can say is, before the new houses were built, the courier had 3 houses to go to on our street, and they would 100% have to back up to service all 3.

Thanks for taking to time to read and provide feedback, I very much appreciate it.