Mastin Lake Road USPS Facility Puts up a Tent for Undelivered Packages Piling up in Huntsville, AL

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has officially erected a tent to protect the undelivered pile of packages outside the Mastin Lake Road facility in Huntsville, AL.

USPS; credit: Jason Hawk 🇨🇦 on Unsplash

Last week, FOX54 reporters found an outdoor "pile" of undelivered packages, and on Monday, 13 July 2026, they found a white tent now covering the undelivered packages. FOX54 posted the images (seen below) of the same area. The news station reached out to the USPS after finding pallets "piled high" outside the Mastin Lake Road facility, and also in Harvest, AL. Another similar situation has also been found in Limestone County at the USPS facility on Market Street.

A worker at the Mastin Lake Road location told FOX54 that it started to back up mid-week due to a surge in Amazon orders.

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YouTube Video: 'Package-protecting tent erected at Huntsville USPS location days after security promise'

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Not the First USPS Package Tent in Alabama

WHNT News 19 reported that USPS installed a package tent in December 2024 to deal with an abundance of undelivered packages. 

Why Did UPS Leave 'Unattended Packages' at the Clubhouse on Green Mountain in Huntsville, AL?

Why did UPS leave packages unattended at a clubhouse parking lot on Green Mountain?

That's what everyone wants to know after a local Huntsville man made the startling discovery on Tuesday, December 3, 2024.

Unattended packages left in a parking lot on Green Mountain

Jim, a Huntsville man, found unattended packages in the clubhouse parking lot on Green Mountain on Tuesday, December 3, 2024. He sat for over an hour waiting for someone to return, but no one did while he was there.

WAFF 48 News Went to Green Mountain Clubhouse & Unattended Packages Were Gone

WAFF 48 News returned to this location later in the day with Jim, and the packages were gone. UPS sent a message saying that "they were trying to figure out what happened." WAFF also went to an address that was on one of the packages, which was about five miles away from this parking lot.

They checked with that homeowner, who confirmed that they had not received their package after several hours.

It is unknown if any of the packages left unattended were Christmas presents.

Local Resident Jim Spoke About Finding the Packages

Jim, a concerned Huntsville resident sat with the unattended packages to see if anyone would return within the hour. No one did, and he contacted WAFF 48 News.

Jim said:

“I mean this is an ethical dilemma at this point. Somebody just had total faith that nothing would happen to those packages up here. Thank you for thinking that way of the residents up here. But it only takes one person to take all of those. I just don’t understand what would be going through a driver’s mind to just unload them and leave them unprotected.”

Jim also said: 

“It’s almost unfathomable at this point. But you see it all the time, porch pirates,” He said concerned. “At this point they would have had early Christmas if they’d have pulled into this parking lot.”

The UPS spokesperson said, "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. UPS takes the security of customers' packages very seriously and we're looking into the situation." 

Have you ever experienced an issue with UPS or delayed delivery on a package?

Source: WAFF 48 News