{"id":12817,"date":"2015-10-26T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:35:57","slug":"usps-service-lets-customers-redirect-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/10\/26\/usps-service-lets-customers-redirect-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Service lets customers redirect packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title-full\">Delivering assurances<\/h1>\n<div class=\"link-subhead-full\"><strong>Service lets customers redirect packages<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2015-10-26T11:54:07+00:00\">USPS News Link 10\/26\/15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content full\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><a title=\"Customers can use the online Delivery Instructions service to redirect their incoming packages.\" href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/delivery_instructions_largestory.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/delivery_instructions_largestory.jpg\" alt=\"A customer looking at her phone\" width=\"330\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-caption\">Customers can use the online Delivery Instructions service to redirect their incoming packages.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS now offers Delivery Instructions, a service that allows customers to redirect their incoming packages to an alternate address or hold them for pickup at a Post Office.<\/p>\n<p>Customers also can select a desired location for carriers to leave their packages, such as a front door or back door, a garage or porch, or a neighbor\u2019s address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to leave a package with a trusted proxy until you can get there really provides an extra layer of security for customers,\u201d said New Products and Innovation VP Gary Reblin.<\/p>\n<p>The service also eliminates the need to schedule a re-delivery and reduces the number of failed delivery attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery Instructions is part of the Postal Service\u2019s efforts to grow its package business. More information is available through<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/my.usps.com\/go\/pages\/intro\/start.action\" target=\"_blank\">My USPS.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delivering assurances Service lets customers redirect packages USPS News Link 10\/26\/15 Customers can use the online Delivery Instructions service to redirect their incoming packages. USPS now offers Delivery Instructions, a service that allows customers to redirect their incoming packages to an alternate address or hold them for pickup at a Post Office. Customers also can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12819,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions\/12819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}