What are the green USPS mailboxes for?

According to the USPS Glossary of Postal Terms published in July 2013 and publicly available online, a “relay box” is “an olive green lockable receptacle in which city carriers leave mail on the line of travel for later pickup and delivery by another carrier.”

What are the blue USPS boxes for?

A blue painted street box with the USPS® logo used by the public to deposit mail. A street letterbox where local mail can be deposited for local delivery with the local postmark.

What does a blue mailbox mean?

A USPS drop box is a blue mailbox provided by the United States postal service that serves as a drop off point for mail and packages meeting certain guidelines. These drop boxes provide an easy way for USPS customers to drop their letters in the mail without visiting the post office.

What are the dark green mail boxes?

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We asked the United States Postal Service to learn why these green boxes exist and why they’re bolted shut. They’re called “relay boxes” and they are used by letter carriers — like a cubbyhole, or a safe, for mail delivery.

Does it matter what color your mailbox is?

The mailbox may be any color. The carrier signal flag can be any color except any shade of green, brown, white, yellow or blue. The preferred flag color is fluorescent orange. Also, the flag color must present a clear contrast with predominant color of the mailbox.

What is a post office relay?

A postal relay box (American English) or pouch box (British English) is a piece of postal infrastructure that may be used to provide deliverable mail to walking (or cycling) mail carriers whose routes do not take them past a post office or sorting facility.

How big of a package can I put in a USPS blue box?

Items weighing 10 oz. or less or 1/2-inch in thickness or less with postage stamps can be deposited in Collection Boxes when: The correct postage, fees, and labels are affixed.

Can you put box in USPS blue box?

The answer is yes. The U.S. post office allows consumers to drop packages into the blue mailboxes as long as they can fit and have the correct postage – whether that’s by stamps, or postage printed out from Amazon, Stamps.com or Paypal).

Are USPS blue boxes reliable?

— For many people, blue USPS drop boxes are an important part of business and daily life. “Those are designed to be a very secure method of receiving that collections mail,” Adam Sale, USPS inspector, said. Even as safe as they are, they too, just like neighborhood mailboxes, can sometimes become the target of thieves.

Can I put mail in the blue box?

What is a mail relay box?

Do you put the flag up on the mailbox?

The USPS requires that carrier signal flags be mounted on the right side of the mailbox when facing the mailbox from the front. This means that when the postal carrier or homeowner is facing the mailbox’s front to deposit or retrieve mail, the carrier signal flag is on his right side.

What is the difference between a blue mailbox and green mailbox?

The blue box is used for postal customers to drop off outbound letters. A postal employee will empty the blue mailbox according to the printed schedule. The green box is used by postal service employees (mail carriers) for mail storage. It is used when they have more mail to deliver on their daily routes than they can easily carry.

What are the blue and green boxes at the post office?

The blue box is used for postal customers to drop off outbound letters. A postal employee will empty the blue mailbox according to the printed schedule. The green box is used by postal service employees (mail carriers) for mail storage.

Who will empty the Blue mailbox in a mailbox?

A postal employee will empty the blue mailbox according to the printed schedule. The green box is used by postal service employees (mail carriers) for mail storage. It is used when they have more mail to deliver on their daily routes than they can easily carry.

What are those dark-green boxes that don’t accept mail?

(They’re those blue hunks of metal bolted to the sidewalk with the creaky flaps that go reeeeaaaaaallllk when you pull them open.) But what about the dark-green boxes that don’t have any slots to accept mail? Called postal relay boxes, these work as storage containers for mail carriers as they make their rounds.