Calabash Contract Postal Unit

This little post office is an awesome place to visit. The staff are so kind and go way above the call of duty to get your mail and package to it's destinations. I love going here and it's a joy each time.

This is a contracted post office. Ace Hardware contracts their tiny space to hopefully bring in business to the store. Therefore, not all services are offered. Any payments by check are made to Ace Hardware, not the USPS. The lady there was very helpful explaining this.

Best kept secret in Calabash

The man who is usually working the counter is argumentative and will overcharge (I have personally had him price a package then take it down the road and received a far cheaper total). He has refused packages with reused boxes in attempts to force you to use their Priority or flat rate boxes that the regular post office accepts no problem. During the tourist and Christmas season he will stand there and flirt with old women while the line is literally half way through the store. Save time and money, drive to a further ACTUAL post office.

Although this is an official USPS provider, they will not mail out to a military address. I don’t know if the older gentleman with glasses, doesn’t agree with the military, and refuses on his own, or he is just plain lazy, but since I’ve moved in the area 2012 the supposed postal employees won’t mail out to an APO AE or any other military address. Even when informed/trained by a USPostal employee from a US military post office showed them how to perform the task of plugging in the information into the system, they still to this day, January 2018, refuse to provide the service that a USPS should. Being a retired military member myself and having come from a military background family we enjoyed the fact we were coming to a community that appreciates the military, this supposed USPS will send you on your way to other post offices in the area to send your loved ones a care package. Even thought they carry the flat rate APO 📦 boxes, and customs forms, they’ll hand them to you and tell you to go else where. Even the other post offices in the area are disgusted with this particular USPS branch because they won’t do their job that they’ve been hired and paid to do. What I gather from the ACE hardware USPS is that they don’t support the military. And if they do, they better get a real USPS agent in there to do the job that they’re supposed to do and get the ACE hardware employee’s that are not trying to do the job, even though they should be doing it to be classified as a USPS ...you know that pretty red,white, and blue sign hanging up behind your postal customer service window. Even if they are contracted out jobs they are to be providing all USPS services. Otherwise don’t have the USPS sign behind you, just put a mail box out side your store for the real USPS postal service to pick up the letter mail, since that’s all you care to do.

I've had a couple of issues with this post office delivering things. If you live in an area that this specific post office delivers to, I'd highly recommend to request having your delivery signed for, or use another shipping service. They are completely unreliable.

No Q code reader for eBay. They don't have that program.

The older man here is VERY lazy and rude!!! He definitely doesn't need to work in customer service anymore!!!!