new smaller USPS blue boxes?

I saw in another thread that there are newer USPS blue boxes that has smaller openings (like 1/2", too small to fit a small flat rate priority box). Can anyone confirm this? When did they start changing these out? And when will it be done everywhere? If this is true, this could be bad for shipping larger items.

for those of you that have seen them: how many are in your town? does it appear that they are being consistently added? is it only near busy drop areas such as post offices? or is it everywhere?

does anyone have the dimensions of the hole?


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[1 Points] MDMangel:

"Honey, I shrunk the mailbox." Rick Moranis used to be the shizz when I was a kid. " Honey, I blew up the package."


[1 Points] Wanted_drugs_2day:

Apparently I've run across a newer one before. Thought it was some kinda fluke.

I don't really see why it matters anyways. Don't big boxes have to be taken inside anyways? Also I doubt they're going to commission probably hundreds of thousands of new blue boxes with their already failing budget.

Remember the USPS is run as a business and doesn't get handouts from the govmt I don't believe.


[1 Points] BurbankJoe:

They're the same size, just the slit is narrower. I believe it's the same as the newer community mailboxes in neighborhoods now.


[1 Points] None:

These are around, but i figured they were older ones... Not newer...

No, the bigger concern is that they've deleted most blue boxes. Just five years ago, nearly every truckstop had one. Now not so much. Hell there used to be multiple ones in my small ass town, now just one outside the post office.....


[1 Points] None:

Ok, all the mailboxes at the actual POs around here are brand new looking, they have small openings. They're still about 2 inches wide, plenty big enough to stick the small flat rate box through.

Maybe they noticed a lot of drugs being shipped from your drop box.

All the drop boxes that arent at the PO are the old ones that you can fit decent size packages in. With the huge door that blocks you from reaching in and all.