BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – Bryan-College Station residents say they may have to spend up to $600 a year for post office boxes to avoid having all their mail returned to sender.
This is according to not only those living at apartment complexes that aren’t receiving mail delivery service anymore but apartment managers as well.
“It feels like they’re holding our mail hostage,” complained Tacoma Rich of College Station.
Last week, Rich said he made the trip to the Bryan Post Office to pick up a week’s worth of mail. This is what his apartment complex told him would be required for all residents going forward, following a change in route by the USPS which now incorrectly labels his apartment as ‘student housing.’
However, when he went back again Wednesday morning, he learned this wouldn’t be an option anymore either.
“I was like, ‘Okay, well, I guess this is going to be a routine for me.’ Every week now, every Wednesday morning, come and pick up my mail even though I live all the way down in College Station, and they said, ‘Well, actually on the 27th, we’re no longer going to be handing out the mail here at the post office. We’re going to be returning mail to sender from all these addresses,‘” Rich relayed.
As shocking as that news was, Rich said what came next was even more of a blow. The post office purportedly told him he would have to pay for a PO box or forward his mail to trusted friends and family members, “That just seems wrong.”