pilot141 - well, postal inspectors do carry guns, so who knows. 
JMRossi - it depends on what the customer means by “different times” and why it’s happening. If it’s not delivered at the exact same time every day, there is no way to prevent that. If it’s being delivered at different times because there’s no regular carrier on the route, and/or it gets split up between different carriers regularly, the only way that’ll change is if someone bids on the route, or if the existing regular carrier doesn’t have to give away mail to others daily due to a route change or change in carrier. And I don’t blame carriers for not delivering to blocked boxes - on a “mounted” (driving) route, that could lead to the vehicle getting stuck in the snow as they try to get close. On a walking route, a carrier could fall on an icy sidewalk. If my husband sees a house with icy stairs, he’ll either rubber band the mail and throw it onto their porch, or take it back to the office with him and leave a “please shovel/salt” note.
I would say that it never snows where I live, but that wouldn’t be 100% accurate. We have, on rare occasions, twice in the last 20 years, received less than 1/16 inch of snow that evaporated as soon as it hit the road.
So if you are trying to say that the reason our mail person did not stop, get out of his truck, walk 5 feet by a parked car, deliver the mail and then leave is that in other states it snows?
That’s a pretty lame excuse if you ask me.
Besides that, the whole non-delivery event happened in the summer.
Besides all that, what about the credo or mission statement, “Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail…”
True it doesn’t say anything about parked cars…
-Sandwriter
SandWriter, if your last post was addressed to me, I was talking about JMRossi’s point about snow and ice blocking the box in.
My husband says that although it’s just common courtesy to not block your box with a car, “mounted” route carriers are supposed to get out of their vehicle and drop the mail in. It’s common courtesy because if everyone blocked their box, the time on the route increases dramatically, and your mail delivery will become delayed.
Well, I would hate to see it delayed any more than it already is.
I must live in some kind of USPS heaven.
My mail comes to me through a slot in my front door, is rarely if ever late, and if I’m not home when a package is delivered the carrier stops by at the end of the day to see if I’m home yet.
I have, twice, gotten my neighbor’s mail by mistake. But that was the relief carrier, and hasn’t happened since I made my address actually legible.
Peace,
mangeorge
I can barely use my home mailbox- I live on a busy street downtown (smallish town, but still a busyish street) and anything of value, especially in obviously identifiable packages like Amazon Netflix, gets stolen before I get home to get the mail. So I drop everything in the Big Blue Box and have most of my mail delivered to work.
I miss New Trenton, Indiana, where there was no door-to-door delivery because they could only afford one postal worker, but the postmaster knew everyone in town by name and sometimes had doughnuts and coffee in the lobby for everyone.