Which one's the snowplow and which one's the backhoe?

Sounds like they went postal.

The only boxes left in my town are outside the post office. I just clip my outgoing mail to the box on the front of my house. Never had a problem.

CruiserTwelve: Which one's the snowplow and which one's the backhoe?

Very funny, I'll send you a cookie for that comment.

FTFA:This town of 1,700 people 35 miles from Portland doesn't have a post office. It doesn't even have its own ZIP code. And it isn't about to give up its mailbox without a fight.

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Izzo-Morin said she doesn't think the Postal Service will save money by removing Otisfield's mailbox. It is just two feet away from the town government's mailbox, and every morning around 10, a mail carrier drives up, puts mail in the town mailbox and then unlocks the blue box and takes mail away.

Doesn't seem unreasonable to leave it there. I'm sure there are thousands of these things across the country that deserve to go, but this actually doesn't seem that ridiculous.

Good for them. It may look silly, but they're standing up to fight a decision made by some bureaucrat who probably couldn't find his a$s with both hands, much less their town.

/nearest mailbox to me: 8.4 miles and PO will NOT pick up from our apartment mailboxes

SO...they figure BLOCKING THE MAILBOX oughtta do the trick?

I guess it hasn't donned on them yet that if nobody comes by to PICK UP the mail from the box, it's about the same as having no mailbox.

/dumbass tag plz

We are here today to witness the opening of a new box to replace the box which used to stand at the corner of Ulverston Road and Sandwood Crescent. Owing to the road-widening program carried out by the Borough Council, the Ulverston Road box was removed, leaving the wall box in Esher Road as the only box for the Ulverston Road area. This new box will enable the people of the Ulverston Road area to post letters, post-cards and small packages without recourse to the Esher Road box or to the box outside the post office at Turner's Parade which many people used to use, but which has now been discontinued owing to the opening of this box and also the re-organization of box distribution throughout the whole area, which comes into force with the opening of new boxes at the Wyatt Road Post Office in July.

Nous sommes ici ce matin pour loire témoin à l'ouvermre de la nouvelle boîte pour reinplacer la boîte qui autrefois était placée au coin d'Ulverston Road et Sandwood Crescent. Porte que du projet pour l'égissement de la hie qui fait par le Borough Council, la boîte dam Ulverston Road est remplacée, et la boîte de tour dons Esher Road, est la seule boîte pour le région d'Ulverston Road. Cette boîte nouvelle rendra capables les hommes d'Ulverston Road de merue dons la poste les lettres, les cane-postales, et des petits paquets sans avant besoin de la boîte de tour dons Esher Road, ou les boîtes de la Turner's Parade bureau de poste, qui beaucoup des hommes one fait usage mais qui est maintenant disconfinuée parce que l'ouverture de cette boîte ici, et le réorganisation régionale que commence avec l'ouverture des boîtes au bureau de poste en Wyatt Road le juillet.

Wir kornmen bier heute Morgen fur die Einfang auf dem neue Kabinett fur die Poste...

Because a few of the 188,000 public mailboxes that have been removed might have actually been OK to leave in place, there is only one solution. We clearly need to have public oversight of every USPS decision. The USPS needs to provide a list to Congress of the location of every mailbox scheduled for removal and allow a 180-day period of public comment and testimony from local officials. Elected officials, not the USPS, are in the best position to determine what resources down to the individual mailbox should be provided, in what quantity, and where they should be placed. We must put a system in place to ensure that... wait for it... THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!!!

It is just two feet away from the town government's mailbox...

Postal officials said the box gets only six pieces of mail a day on average

WTF? Why can't the town government just make room in their mailbox for six pieces of mail a day?

I was on their side until the end...they have to drive 4 miles to mail something? Jeezz, I have to drive further than that to buy groceries and I live in an urban area. I don't think there are any mailboxes left within 5 miles of me.

I think the solution for this situation is obvious: if the USPS refuses to do it, then take away their monopoly to do it.

There are any number of private companies who would be more than glad to handle rural first class mail, with door to door service, drop boxes, etc. If you want to drive 20 miles to get to the post office, that is good too, but most people would prefer higher commercial postage for first class, figuring it is still a lot cheaper than the price of gasoline.

America needs to reassess government services. In the few places it is permitted, private fire departments are better and cheaper than government run fire departments. And many other civic services are a LOT cheaper with outside contractors.

whammer: I think the solution for this situation is obvious: if the USPS refuses to do it, then take away their monopoly to do it.

The libertarian wet dream at work. Funny how a monopoly is never a problem with you guys when it's run by a private business.



There are any number of private companies who would be more than glad to handle rural first class mail, with door to door service, drop boxes, etc. If you want to drive 20 miles to get to the post office, that is good too, but most people would prefer higher commercial postage for first class, figuring it is still a lot cheaper than the price of gasoline.

America needs to reassess government services. In the few places it is permitted, private fire departments are better and cheaper than government run fire departments. And many other civic services are a LOT cheaper with outside contractors.

What happens if they leave the box there but just stop taking the mail from it?

Lex Luthor: Costa Del Lex. Luthorville. Marina del Lex. Otisfield... Otisfield?
Otis: Miss Teschmacher, she's got her own place.
Lex Luthor: Otisfield?
Otis: It's a little bitty place.
Lex Luthor: [Angrily] *Otisfield*?
Otis: Okay, I'll just wipe it off, that's all. Just a little town.

lajimi:
I just clip my outgoing mail to the box on the front
of my house. Never had a problem.

Yet...

I've never done this and never will.

My main fear has always been that the wind might dislodge
the envelope from the mailbox and blow it down the street
before the mailman gets there to pick it up.

But with all the stories about ID theft going around, the idea
of leaving my credit card payment or some other important
piece of mail sticking out of the mailbox outside my front
door for hours on end, (with low life replacement window
solicitors and junkmail-door-hanger guys walking about)
is even less appealing.

It's ok. They'll just open another one.

redTiburon: I was on their side until the end...they have to drive 4 miles to mail something? Jeezz, I have to drive further than that to buy groceries and I live in an urban area. I don't think there are any mailboxes left within 5 miles of me.

Tell that to the disabled. In particular the disabled vets. Go ahead, tell that to Grandpa Badass that kicked Tojo's teeth out through his ass.