From: "John Beamish" 

I agree ... the post office is losing business which they could easily
manage but they won't do pickups; you have to bring the stuff to a
postoffice box (big red thingys on major street corners) and drop them in.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:407957b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I've been meaning to ask this about Netflix ... iirc, the US Postal
System
> > will, when it is delivering to a house, pick up any properly stamped
> > outgoing mail (ie, they won't make a visit to check but, if they are
> already
> > there delivering, they will pick up).
> >
> > Is this still in effect?
>
> Yes, except that they do make the outgoing visits and pick up new mail,
even
> if there is no outgoing mail -- if it's on a route.
>
> > I'm asking because there's a Canadian start up (not well priced from my
> > perspective) attempting to do a Netflix.  But, to return the DVDs, I
still
> > have to locate a post box to drop them into.
>
> That's seems like a weird requirement.
>
> - Bob Comer

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