It is all the time during weekdays. We shall see.
It's only when the parking lot is post office property that you cannot park there with your firearm in your car. For whatever reason, now my mail is not delivered for more than 3 days at a time and mail is simply missing. In San Jacinto, California, it's illegal to park within 10 feet of a mailbox between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. except … Bonidy, who is legally permitted to carry a concealed firearm, was unable to carry the weapon on post office property without violating the law.
The intersection of Fountain, Alden, Harrison & Philip in front of the post office is a free-for-all of running red lights, illegal parking and illegal standing. Parking your car in the parking lot of a strip mall that has a post office in it is perfectly fine. Although it is not illegal to park in front of a mailbox, United States Postal Service regulations state that a mail carrier is not required to deliver mail where they can not reasonably access the The federal statute defines a “facility” as a building or part of a building owned or leased by the federal government.8The Postal Service regulation brazenly expands this “post office law” designed to ban weapons inside a building to the parking lot outside.9The Postal Service is adamant that this makes driving into the parking lot with a gun anywhere in the car a federal crime. “People who stop at the post office to drop off mail, or pick up packages, can’t park at the curb because the space is taken up by workers.” And local cops who neglect to ticket the illegally parked vehicles aren’t helping to curb the problem, according to McClure, who demanded police crack down on the rule-breaking postal workers.
Called to advise post office and they claim they will address the issue.
Prior to Jan. 2017, Floral Park Post Office was very good with mail delivery and services. We need some enforcement here.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the USPS must permit Bonidy to carry his gun in his car in the public parking lot at the post office. The city of Portland, Oregon, for example, stops people from parking within a restricted postal zone, defined as 10 feet from a mailbox facing the street. It's up to an individual city or county to decide whether vehicles may park in front of or within a certain distance of a mailbox.