The post office rents post office boxes, usually in periods of six months or a year. The rates vary, but are regarded as reasonable.
you put a stamp on the letter, stick it in your mail box, or run up to the nearest post office, or stick it in the mail box outside the post office.
There is little difference between putting a letter in the mail box verses dropping it off at a post office. It does save the time in having to queue for a stamp if the post office is busy and you can put a letter in the mail box even when the post office is closed.
No, it will not be received.
Most companies will not ship to post office boxes. You can buy a box at a UPS store and have mail delivered there. You can have mail held at your post office if you have a problem with mail deliveries.
Yes, you can rent a box at the post office. Ours costs $40 a year.
If you re speaking of your US mail PO box, at the post office - simply ask for it over the counter. If you are referring to a commercial post office box - they cannot withhold your mail from you. It is against Federal law.
Yes you can. The post office apparently places a notice in the post box for the owner, to sign for a registered mail at the counter.
It is a Post Office Box. Instead of having something sent to an address of a place, you can organise a post office box through your post office and the post will be sent there. You can then collect it. It is a way of keep an actual address private.
wrap it, box it, go to the post office.
Mail boxes can be applied in your nearest post office. If you have a local post office in your city, that would be where to start if you would want to have a mail box.
A mail box is for the use of the Post Office only. It is a federal crime to put something in there if you are not a Mail Carrier.
I am not sure what you want to know. You can mail first class letters at any post office and there are post boxes scattered around the cities and towns. Hotels usually have a place to mail letters. If you get mail delivery, the letter carrier will also pick up mail you want to send out. Mail is delivered everywhere in the country if you have a proper mail box set up or you can rent a post office box at a post office.