Expert Advice: Cluster Box Unit (CBU) Mailboxes

By locating your property’s commercial mailboxes in a circular or “U-grouping”, providing a well-lit area for these commercial mailbox groupings, ensuring that tenant identification numerals on the mailbox compartments do not correspond with the tenant units themselves, and by specifying extra high security units for commercial mailbox solutions that require CBU mailboxes, a developer or property manager can provide better tenant security and by default, increased tenant retention.

Buyers of USPS approved commercial mailboxes may be surprised to discover the wide variety of design options and feature choices that extend far beyond the standard postal grey and sandstone commercial mailbox options of the past.

When choosing residential or commercial apartment mailboxes, developers and project managers can determine the best apartment mailbox style for their apartment building complex by first answering three key questions.

When considering commercial mailboxes in new construction of office or business buildings, builders and developers should strongly consider the Postal Service’s desire to improve mail delivery efficiency as stated in their April 2012 policy update.

Centralized mailboxes such as 4C and CBU commercial mailboxes are a strategic priority for the U.S. Postal Service but they are not only a good development for the Postal Service, they also provide many benefits to one’s city and neighborhood.