How to Get A PO Box

As you may know, Rancho Santa Fe and surrounding area residents do not have home delivery of mail, nor do they have street corner post boxes that a lot of newer neighborhoods have. Instead, each resident must acquire their own post office box. Following are nearby PO Box locations.

Note that there is a local company that can deliver PO Box mail directly to your door from any of these locations.

The main Rancho Santa Fe Post Office is located at 16956 Via De Santa Fe. There usually aren't PO Boxes available here, but do check (in person) to see if they happen to have one available.

The Post Office has another facility in the Del Rayo Village mall, near Fairbanks, which does have available PO Boxes for $232/year. It is also located in the 92067 zip code, so the only difference between a PO box there and one in the RSF Village is that RSF Village PO Boxes are numbered below 3000, while De Rayo boxes are numbered above 3000. The other difference, of course, is that Del Rayo Village is typically further away from most Rancho residents.

There are also two nearby private mailbox rental locations. A stone's throw from the RSF Village Post Office is The Parcel Place which rents private PO Boxes. They charge $216/year and also offer a 92067 zip code for their PO Boxes (which is important for parcel delivery).

And then in nearby Encinitas, at the base of Encinitas Blvd at Rancho Santa Fe road, The Postal Corner also rents out PO Boxes for $360/month. But this is not in the 92067 zip code and that makes parcel delivery problematic since you often don't know how an on-line store will ship a package. They may ship via post office or via courier. You normally get around this by including your physical and PO Box addresses in the shipping information, but you can't do that if your zip codes for each are different.

Read this Mail Delivery article to learn about a home delivery option for postal main and also how to address your shipments so they'll arrive no matter how an online merchant ships your package (courier or post office).