Name these communities.
There’s always SOME excuse, no matter how trivial, to keep wasting money is sums the human mind can scarcely even comprehend. Some old guys need a place to drink coffee in the morning and wonder if they’ve caught that Dillinger guy whose face is on the poster. That’s worth a few hundred million for sure.
I’d like to see a list - while I think this has to be done I do understand the comment.
When you live in Podunk, Ohio but your post office requires people to put “East Boofoo” when they mail to you, your actual town gets lost in the shuffle.
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Name these communities.
Just thinking out loud here...and hoping to get the the thoughts of those conversant with law and the "Postal Clause":
What would it take to just completely do away with the USPS? It's a relic of the era long before electronic communications and prior to private enterprise performing the same services more effectively.
It is my understanding that Thomas Jefferson opposed the creation of a government-run mail service. Is that correct or have I misinterpreted his writings?
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How about every Alaskan community with a population under about 3,000?
It is a sad moment when the government decides that it is going to ignore its Constitutional obligations - the post office is mentioned by name - while piling on huge amounts of crap not mentioned at all in Article 1, Section 8.
Just pointing it out.
In my not-so-remote town, 50 miles north of NYC, there are at least three P.O.’s within a 3 mile radius of my home. And this is typical in the area.
Mine is one.
Ours for one. Some of the folks in the roughly 70 square miles served by the post office are illiterate. Guess who makes out checks and money orders? The postal clerk. Those same folks live in an area where internet access is dialup at best. Not to mention most of the elderly don’t own computers. We’re in the process of screwing the greatest generation that fought in WWII and Korea.
Most of the mail is delivered by contract carriers that sort the mail in that liitle post office. Most folks (maybe 60) in this unincorporated town don’t travel in winter.
I think the post office would save much more money by delayering management. Simply cut the management levels by half.
My uncle, who recently passed away, used to for a while go up the local tiny rural post office that was in a country store that closed. He would sit and talk the postmaster’s ear off while she was trying to work at the computer. He was a friend and was going senile. She would feed him about every day, breakfast, lunch and supper. He didn’t understand that she was working at the computer, kept asking her if she had it fixed yet. Then yak, yak, yak, until she just about went crazy herself; but I guess after he died she missed him. (It wasn’t a romance thing; I wondered a lot about why that community spoiled him rotten. He’d lived there about 50 yrs.) - The postmaster did a good job there for many years; but it was a challenge for her the last few months that he lived.
The problem is that the P.O. in Newberry on the upper peninsula of Michigan is what will get closed. And it'll be 20 miles to the next one.
Here in NJ there's a new small town every few miles down Route 22, and each has a Post Office. Half of the P.O.s in this area could close without major impact. And unless that map above is listing every public mailbox, there's a PO in Manhattan every 5 blocks.
But the U.P. of Michigan has fewer voters than Central NJ or Manhattan, so that's what's going to get closed. Murphy has a law about that ...
Pick any small town in the Great Basin. Towns of 200 to 2000 people, surrounded by 50 to 100 miles of nothing in most any direction.
Pick small towns in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, the very northeast part of California, eastern Colorado, north eastern New Mexico, etc.
There’s lots of places where it is a pretty fair haul to the next town and the next post office.