Post office withholding mail for my apt building

Apparently the Allentown, PA post office won't deliver mail to our apartment building anymore until the building is "compliant" in putting a key box in the foyer specifically for the USPS. There's a key that UPS and FedEx use and they refuse to use it.

Another resident called and they were told that they're not even allowed to come in an pick it up because they want the residents to be angry enough to get the building to install the stupid box. (FTR, the building was notified some time ago about it.)

I can let it go that they won't deliver to the building, but I don't believe it's legal for them to withhold it even if we try to pick it up from where we were told they're holding it. Many have packages that are about to be returned to sender and 1 man I spoke to is out of his meds and was waiting for them to be delivered.

I'm planning to go there this afternoon and to try tossing the following (next paragraph) at them, but was just wondering if anyone know if they have a legal right to not allow mail pickup?

18 U.S. Code § 1703. Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers U.S. Code Notes prev | next (a) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail entrusted to him or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier or other employee of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (b) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, improperly detains, delays, or destroys any newspaper, or permits any other person to detain, delay, or destroy the same, or opens, or permits any other person to open, any mail or package of newspapers not directed to the office where he is employed; or Whoever, without authority, opens, or destroys any mail or package of newspapers not directed to him, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 37, 63 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(16), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), (G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146, 2147.)

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