I'm not who you're replying too, but I also live in a place with no delivery to the home, despite UPS and FedEx doing so. Everybody in our town gets a free PO Box - I suspect that's how the service obligation is covered. Once a year we have to prove that we still live here to keep the free box.

Thanks! The free PO box is an interesting loophole that USPS can exploit.

My rural PO Box rental is $120/year, for the smallest size. If there's a free option they must keep it quiet.

I didn't know about it for the first few years I lived here, so ask when you're at the counter.

Most extremely rural areas don't have home delivery and never have. It's been this way for literally centuries.

Their web site seems to suggest they have last mile delivery everywhere because they're under universal service obligation. But, when I lived rural, I remember my mom having to drive to the post office to pick up the mail.

The universal service obligation is not that they have to provide home delivery for everyone, but that they can't close your podunk post office and make life even more hellish for the the 12 households that rely on it that it already is.