Sending Mails from Truck Stops

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  1. nextgentrucker

    nextgentrucker Road Train Member

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    As the title say, is there a way to send mails from Truck Stops?
     
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  3. silverspur

    silverspur Road Train Member

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    I wouldn't leave mail with a person at a truck stop or leave a letter on a counter with the other letters waiting to be picked up by the mailman.

    The only place I will leave a letter is INSIDE the post office at the drop slot in the lobby. I don't even trust those blue mailboxes on the street anymore. Sad to say.
     
  4. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    No.

    If you need to mail something you will need to either FedEx it (many trucks stops have a drop box) or swing by a post office.
     
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  5. TexasRiverRat

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    I'm not sure how it'll work since I heard UPS got the mail contract. And I'm sure there's something I'm missing with that, but Fed Ex drops in the town closest to me used to accept US Mail, but the Post Office wouldn't take Fed Ex packages.

    I learned this by first hand experience due to a very condescending USPS employee who informed me that "we don't take that.... Next"

    When I went to the Fed Ex drop in town afterwards, they had a separate area for US Mail, and they delivered it to the Post Office daily.

    Makes one wonder why that postal employee had a job.
     
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  6. Moosetek13

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    People still send snail mail? Amazing.
     
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  7. silverspur

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    I had to use it tecently when I got my passport renewed. To get the application from Ardmore to Irving Texas, the hucksters behind the post office counter with their boiler room tactics tried to con me that my only option was to send it priority mail at a price well north of thirty dollars. But armed with my trusty online postage calculator and my own large envelope I was able to mail it for less than three bucks.
     
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  8. nextgentrucker

    nextgentrucker Road Train Member

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    Yeah, that's what I'm asking, if there's a Dropbox or something else to send mails from Truck Stops.
     
  9. Lonesome

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    Some do, some don't.
     
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  10. gentleroger

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    Not for regular us mail. For a lot more money you can fed ex it using the link below to find a drop box.

    Fed ex drop box
     
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