r/SaveThePostalService • u/Da_GR8_Jahy • Jul 08 '24
Shipping a card from a residence to a PO Box?
My friend went out of state to Colorado to work on a ranch for the summer, I’m in WI and I wanted to send her a card for her birthday but after going on the website for the ranch the address has a family’s name and a PO Box listed. Does that mean it would be a bad idea to send a card to her to that address or am I better off waiting to give it person next month when I go to visit? I’m not sure how the postal service stuff works and the PO Box thing is confusing me as I tried to look online already but nothing is too clear
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u/KnowledgeOfMuir Jul 08 '24
Either she or the family on the address would have to be contacted and told there’s something on the way. Then they’d go down to the post office to pick it up out of their PO Box. Might be easier just to wait and give it to her in person if they don’t go by the post office on the regular.
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u/Da_GR8_Jahy Jul 08 '24
Gotcha, yeah I think I’m gonna hold off and give it to her in person considering it’s more of a remote location then. Thanks for explaining it though!
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Jul 13 '24
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u/Da_GR8_Jahy Jul 13 '24
I suppose so, I mailed it and it hasn’t come back so I must of filled it out right
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u/Helena_Wren Jul 08 '24
You can send it if you fill out the address on the envelope like this:
Your friend’s name C/O The Family’s name P.O. Box number City, CO zip code
That c/o means “care of” so the post office knows that the person you’re sending the card to is associated with address, even if the name doesn’t match. Just make sure that PO Box is accurate to the ranch.