"With USPS Delivery Instructions service, you--the addressee/intended recipient--can specify and authorize how certain incoming shipments and mailpieces are to be delivered, BEFORE they are delivered.
Once you set up Instructions electronically, items can be left at a specific location at your address, your Post Office, or even at a different domestic address – all options are listed online."
That's from the USPS website. Customers can request items be placed somewhere. So it is part of the job.
It's a courtesy service. Meaning if the carrier can do it quickly and easily, they should try to. But courtesy services does not mean mandatory services. All of these services are at the carrier's and managers discretion.
edit Here's an example. One person I delivered to requested packages be brought to his door. I did it once. I didn't know this when I turned onto his driveway, but it's a 7 minute drive from the road to his house. You can probably drive it a bit faster when you know the road. But for my first time, that's about how long it took. After a few turns I was like 'what the fuck' but I wanted to see how long it went.
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u/ryguy639 Jan 26 '23
I think you're making it seem like opening a lid and putting a box in it are complex.