Think about what your company name is, or who you will be getting mail sent to - for us at UPstudio, there has been confusion at times with the first three letters of our name being 'UPs', where our mail was accidentally opened by UPS employees.If you are a AAA member most UPS stores provide a discount on certain mailbox packages, so make sure to ask.But here is the kicker, you have the option at the UPS store to pay a one time $25 fee to get a 24 hour access fob. The UPS store hours are 8:30am-6:30pm M-F, and 10am-2pm on Saturdays. The later hours of the UPS store are more convenient with our routines. At the Post Office the PO Box lobby hours are limited to 6am-5:30pm M-F, and 6am-12pm on Saturdays.Wilmington Street is a prominent downtown Raleigh street, so it only helps our legitimacy. This one is personal preference: A street address provides your company with a bit more of a professional image when compared to a PO Box.This service is not provided by USPS for PO Boxes. This way we wouldn't have to update all of our accounts or re-brand. So, if our day jobs move away from downtown and our "permanent" address is no longer convenient, we can choose to have all our mail and packages forwarded to another address while still keeping our current address as a front. UPS provides mail forwarding for a small additional fee.So far we haven't been disappointed on this front. Our small UPS store is locally owned and operated and we were assured that they would pay close attention in hopes of avoiding this issue. To continue on the package note: Being a paper/stationary type store, we were concerned that returns would get crammed into our small box therefore rending the products unusable for repurchase or that products shipped to us for resale would suffer the same fate.UPS is the clear winner in the package department. They also send you an e-mail or text whenever a package has been delivered. They will sign for your packages as well, uber convenient. The owner of our local UPS store said she will accept packages as large as pallet size deliveries. The UPS store can accept any package size and will hold it for you either in a larger holding box or behind the counter. They also won't hold anything that must be signed for - a big predicament. ![]() They will not hold packages shipped by Fedex, UPS, or other carriers. At the post office, if you have a package that won't fit into your box they will not hold it for you behind the counter unless it was shipped by USPS.
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