Rural Post Offices Closing

[MrWhoopee]

I just found out that there is another move afoot in the consolidation of USPS services. They have proposed (are planning?) to close the small, rural post offices, forcing carriers to travel to larger hubs to pickup mail for delivery and forcing those of us who ship to do the same. I ship several times a week, and the 90 mile round-trip drive (instead of 20) would mean I could only go about once a week. Remember when the second S in USPS stood for service?

 

[NCjeeper]

This would suck for our town if they did this.

 

[ChazzC]

My understanding of this from the clerks st our small Boro post office is that sorting/delivery will be from the depot and that counter service will still be available at the post office.

 

[Janderso]

That's a real shame.
They don't seem to be concerned with "Service' anymore. Cost savings is their focus.
UPS on the other hand... They at least try. Not cheap though!!

 

[Aaron_W]

My understanding is that the last round of P.O. closures ended up costing more money, not less.

 

[brasssmanget]

Postal leaders appear to me to be walking in circles having no clue how to make the USPS function anymore. Sad sad state of affairs over there.....

 

[matthewsx]

I started at the USPS on the same day as Mr. DeJoy.

However, I left the same week. I bet some folks wish he had too....

John

 

[savarin]

Out here its banks closing down rural branches and reducing services in all other branches.

 

[rabler]

Ironically where I lived in rural Georgia, we had a post office about a 1/2 mile away. Several miles to the nearest gas station or store though. And there was another post office about 6 miles away.

But, the local post office had PO box service only. You had to pick up there, no curb box delivery. And if something was sent to your county road address they would return it as undeliverable. It was a real pain because many online orders (like amazon) would not commit to how they were shipping (usps vs ups). Of course ups can’t deliver to a po box. And some places, like the state for your driver’s license wanted a physical address and would then only send mail to that address.

Of course you got a free po box, but only the tiny box that was to small for a CD back in the days off netflix dvds. Or Jepps subscription. Those had to be picked up at the counter. Which was open M-F 9-4, closed for lunch. Both of us worked full time jobs. Which meant paying for a large box for things that would fit in any curbside mailbox.

Fortunately the FAA (actually all federal agencies) have a provision that they have to accept a hand drawn map in lieu of a physical address so my pilot’s license and and airplane registration, etc weren’t problematic.

There was a cost cutting round that failed to shut that po box post office down. Just stupid.
Ironically the name of the unincorporated village was Eden, Georgia. Said so on the post office too.

Glad to be free of that idiocy.

 

[Dhal22]

The USPS is becoming a joke. Hard to even do business through them.