[Durham INC] Conversion of Mail Boxes: You're Not Required

[TheOcean1 at aol.com]

Looks like you have your facts straight, Mike. Both of you.
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Nf4l7LTdo_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Nf4l7LTdo)  

Bill  Anderson



In a message dated 11/11/2011 6:18:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mike at mikewoodard.com writes:

There  has been some email traffic recently about the Post Office 
requesting that  homeowners with house-mounted mailboxes remove them and set up a 
curbside  mailbox.

Some of your INC leaders and I are planning to meet with the  Postmaster to 
discuss this request. Until that meeting, rest easy. Moving your  mailbox 
cannot be mandated by the Post Office. Threats of withholding your  mail are 
not valid.

Here is a discussion of this topic, posted recently  on a website for Post 
Office  managers.
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Conversion of Mode  of Delivery (POM 631.6) 
In this section, conversion refers to changing  existing mail delivery to a 
more economical and efficient mode. The key to  converting existing 
deliveries is identifying those deliveries that are most  costly to the Postal 
Service. Delivery managers can go into any delivery  territory where delivery 
has been established for over 1 year and solicit to  convert the mode of 
delivery if it would be cost beneficial to the Postal  Service.

Postmasters should not establish a mixed delivery area where  the carrier 
must zigzag from the door to the curb when previously the carrier  took 
obvious shortcuts to effect delivery. Postmasters must weigh the  advantages and 
disadvantages of converting less than 100 percent of the  deliveries.

Customer signatures must be obtained prior to any  conversion. In 
single-family housing areas (including manufactured housing and  mobile homes) where 
the residences and lots are owned, each owner must agree  to the conversion 
in writing. Owners who do not agree must be allowed to  retain their current 
mode of delivery.

When a residence is sold, the  mode of delivery cannot be arbitrarily 
changed prior to the new resident  moving in. The existing mode of delivery must 
be retained. If an owners’  association represents the community, it can 
direct the mode of delivery for  the community. In rental areas, such as 
apartment complexes and mobile home  parks, the owner or manager can approve the 
conversion.  

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A few items of  note:

1) Delivery managers may "solicit to convert" the delivery mode;  they 
cannot mandate.

2) Postmasters should not have routes "zigzag"  from house to curb to 
house. Homeowners should work together to ensure that  the 100 percent conversion 
target, or anything even close, is not  met.

3) "In single-family housing areas...each owner must agree to the  
conversion in writing. Owners who do not agree must be allowed to retain their  
current mode of delivery." That's pretty emphatic.

4) Note in #4 above  that HOAs can direct the mode of delivery and that 
apartment managers can  approve conversion.

Please share this information with your neighbors,  especially if they 
received one of these letters from their carrier. There is  no reason we must 
accept this unilateral action from the Post  Office.

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Mike  Woodard
Email: mike at mikewoodard.com
Web site:  www.mikewoodard.com
Mobile:  919.599.5143
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