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Mail delivery and post offices in Summit County, Colorado

By Rolo Cuadrado

Real Estate Agent with Colorado Mountain College

April 01, 2008 04:00 AM

"Wait a minute Mr. Postman..."

There is very limited mail delivery in Summit County and its towns. Most residents rent a post office box. The box fee may be waived if you can prove residency in specific areas. A few neighborhoods and subdivisions do have mail delivery. There are full service Post Offices in Breckenridge, Dillon, Frisco, and Silverthorne. Keystone is served by Dillon. Copper Mountain has a PO box station, served by Frisco. A daily trip to get our mail becomes part of our routine here, and it's hard to go to the Post Office without running into someone you know or making a new friend.

For more detailed info, see www.usps.gov or call 800 275 8777.

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Katerina Gasset

The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT

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Rolando! How are you doing! ? This is great info. I remember when you told me about the mail box thing. It sounded like the old west! Even Nestor was like what? No mail boxes? Then we got it when we realized how rural it can get up there.

Apr 01, 2008 05:42 PM

Rolo Cuadrado

Colorado Mountain College - Frisco, CO

Katerina, Yes it IS like the old west. The goofy thing is that we are not really that rural. These are densely populated resort towns! The mailman could be on foot for most deliveries. But with so many 2nd homes, I guess it just never got set up that way.

Apr 02, 2008 01:15 PM

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Lisa Marie Mercer

For the most part, this works out okay. You get to throw away your junk mail before it reaches your home. However, there is one caveat: I'm a freelance writer, and I am currently having issues with a company who will not accept either my PO Box or my physical address on my W9 form. They claim that they cannot submit payment to anyone whose address cannot be verfied by the USPS mailing system.

This is an unusual, isolated case, but it's still annoying.

Lisa

www.flyaway-weblog.com

May 14, 2008 05:37 AM

Lisa Marie, I know what you mean. I sometimes have strange responses to this too. I have been told that you can trick some systems by including your PO Box as part of your street address (305 Main St., Ste. 5042), but I do not know if that would solve the issue you describe.

May 14, 2008 09:04 AM

Kim R.

Hi, Rolo,

We've lived in Summit for years finding all the good and bad with the USPS system up here. One helpful hint: when ordering, and you don't know what the delivery system will be, use the following. It's worked now ever since I discovered this method:

name POBox (so for instance, John Doe 1492)

physical address

city, state, zip-POBox (e.g. Breckenridge, CO 80424-1492

a question for you! How do you find someone's PO Box up here? If you go to the typical phone books, they list only the physical address, so a sender is unsure if they get mail delivery or not, and I can't find any PO Boxes listed in the phone directories. I just like to send out thank you notes (the old fashioned, hand written kind) every now and then!

Kim

Dec 02, 2012 12:20 AM

Kim,

Most, if not all, of the Summit County phone books have a separate section listing PO boxes. Usually it's between the regular white pages and the yellow pages.

Good luck,

Rolo

Dec 02, 2012 10:16 AM

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