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Can you pick up your letters at the post office instead of having it delivered to your house?

If you live with others and you don't want to risk them seeing your letters, is there a way to get it delivered to the post office and you can pick it up from there?

Update:

Thanks Rico but I still want to know, like how? Say if your ordering something online and it asks you for your home address then what do you put. If you go to the post office asking them for your letters then do you need to take some id to prove who you are? Sorry I don't really know how this works because I hardly ever get any letters and now I want to order something online.

Update 2:

Thanks Handyman! and do you need to take any Id or proof of address?

Update 3:

Thanks a lot roger! but I dunno how you rent a post box or anything and if I just order it to my address and then go to the post office and keep asking them if its arrived then will they give it you. Again do you need ID?

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  • roger
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    handy man don't know he only has a half an answer to begin with.The post office will only hold your mail briefly if you go on vacation. If you want your mail at the post office you need to rent a po box. you then get a kep and can go any time you want to get the mail. Most internet companies cannot ship to a po box so forget that idea. figure out a better plan

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yes, they call them "post office boxes". You rent one at the post office or from a place that offers the service.

  • 5 years ago

    Pliot21: that is a sticky problem with the post workplace because it delivers extra time for the service to variety, etc., so their universal answer to a request like yours will be a no. even if, a thanks to likely paintings round that is to enable them comprehend that you stay in 765 Fir St. "Apt A" and that each and every surely one of your mail is to be held for you on the PO. That Apt. A gadgets you except for the different electorate. i have considered it paintings, yet some Postmasters may nicely be agency on the count number and not in any respect let it. if so, it may look that your basically different recourse is to pay for a PO container quantity. JMO...and that i desire it helps you. playstation ....I forgot to operate....enable them comprehend that the clarification you want them to carry your mail is because you aren't from now on round a lot and for the protection of the mail you want them to carry it till such circumstances as you %. it up. pss....yet another element you may attempt is to have your parcels further as "universal shipping" to the post workplace. They were nonetheless doing that many years in the past formerly I retired from there so i do not imagine that could want to make all of us bypass "postal" on you.

  • 8 years ago

    Yes. Go to your post office and ask them for your mail. If you are looking for a more permanet solution, let them know that you would like to always pick up your mail there.

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  • 8 years ago

    Yes, but you will need to go to the post office and let them know that you won,t them to hold your mail,You are going to be picking it up for no.

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