The Pony Is On The Case

During his Sunday deliveries of Amazon packages, The Pony made a discovery. There was a FedEx package in a mailbox. He was shocked! FedEx is not allowed to deliver packages to USPS mailboxes.

"I took a picture of it, Mom. See? It's sitting on top of the regular mail. That means it was put there after the mail got delivered. It's not one of our packages. The only other thing I could think of is that a well-meaning neighbor got this package delivered by mistake, and just stuck it in the mailbox of the real owner. But they're not supposed to do that, either. If something like that is in the box, we might think it's meant to be sent back. We're supposed to pick up letters and stuff in the box. Outgoing mail.

I called my supervisor, and sent her the picture. She said, 'Um. NO! That's illegal! Bring it in!' So I took it back to the office, and she put a note on it about how I found it and was told to bring it in. Just in case another manager is there when they have to deal with it. The postal inspectors will try to figure out what's going on."

As you might suspect, there's a bit of competition between the USPS and FedEx. SOME packages are sent FedEx, and then delivered by the USPS. In which case they would have the proper label on them. A FedEx delivery person can't just stuff a package in a mailbox to get rid of it.

The Pony is a stickler for rules. Always has been.