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programmingaccount1

How do you tell Amazon to deliver to Canada Post apartment parcel box?

My Apartment has an Canada Post parcel box and i've only used it once. I am used to getting things delivered to my parents house and picking it up and trying to move away from that, at least for small stuff.

So I tried to to order something small over Amazon So I added "P.O Box 0" to my address to force a Canada post deliver, otherwise they default to a 3rd party carrier. Okay parcel shipped. Mailman left pickup notice in mailbox.

What's the proper way to ensure parcels shipped through Amazon get delivered to the box? Assuming it isn't full. I'm not sure why it wasn't delivered to the box.

Thanks

Posted Sep 4, 2023, 11:10 PM UTC

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DaveJones902•

They don't have the keys to canada post boxes... and never will. Amazon has boxes set up at other places... for example I saw some at a Pizza Pizza.

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programmingaccount1OP•

Yes, that's why I set it up so Canada Post was the one delivering the Amazon package. Canada Post openly advertises the use of special Canada Post mail boxes to receive packages.

If you add "P.O box [...]" to any Amazon shipping address it forces Canada Post to deliver the package.

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DaveJones902•

I see, you have a card to pick it up at the post office... could be your parcel locker is full, your parcel is too big, or your parcel requires a signature.... or your mail person is lazy.

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Jaew96•

It has nothing to do with laziness, if you request delivery to a post office, then your carrier will never even see the parcel, it gets sent directly to the requested post office after reaching its destination depot.

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Promethiaus•

Lazy mail person

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OrneryPathos•

It’s possible the parcel lockers were full.

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Blunt_Flipper•

I mean, it's more work for them to card it and take it back to the depot. The only reason they wouldn't leave it in the parcel locker is because the lockers were already full.

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prairiepanda•

it's more work for them to card it and take it back to the depot.

Unless they didn't bother to pull the package out of their van at all. I often see that at places where the mailboxes are quite far from where the delivery van parks; they'll just walk up with a handful of pickup notices instead of hauling all the packages over. It depends on the driver, though.

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OG_Jack_Tripper•

By depot, they mean the retail post office where the item gets carded. Although I agree that there are sub par workers, in order to card an item that would be a non signature, you have to put a reason in which is more work. OP states it was a small item and a tray is not heavy and very unlikely they wouldn't out it in to bring it over.

If the item was delivered in the city or town sometime they have contractors that deliver the parcels for the letter carriers (walking route carriers) because of weight/size restrictions on packages.

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