Path One: The “Street Address Genius.” This is your best bet. If your local post office offers Street Addressing Service (and many do—ask at the counter), you can use the post office’s physical street address and your box number as a suite or unit. FedEx reads this as a real building, not a P.O. Box, and delivers it right to the front desk.
Path Two: The “Hold at Location” Hero. If Street Addressing isn’t an option, you’re not out of luck. You can simply ship the package to a FedEx Office location (like Kinko’s, for the old-schoolers) or a Walgreens with a FedEx drop-off. You just select “Hold at Location” during checkout, and pick it up with your ID.
Fun fact: FedEx actually delivers millions of packages to P.O. Boxes indirectly every year. They hand them off to the USPS for the final mile via a service called FedEx SmartPost. It’s like a musical relay race, but with less running and more scanning.
What NOT to Do (A Cautionary Tale)
Never simply put “P.O. Box 123” in the address line of a FedEx label and hope for the best. That’s like putting a letter in a bottle and expecting it to find a specific yacht. The package will likely be returned to sender, marked “Undeliverable as Addressed,” which is a fancy way of saying, “You broke the mail rules.”
Can You Send Fedex To Po Box
Another trap: assuming a private mailbox rental (like at a UPS Store) is the same as a P.O. Box. It’s not! Private mailboxes usually have a real street address (e.g., “123 Main St #456”), so FedEx can deliver there without any fuss. P.O. Boxes are government-owned; private boxes are your own little shipping sanctuary.
Bonus tip: If you’re sending something important, always add a phone number to the label. FedEx drivers will call if they get confused by the P.O. Box situation. It’s their secret weapon for avoiding a shipping disaster.
