[Durham INC] Fwd: Postal Service delivery method swtich attempt

[Christine Chamberlain]

I realize this is a hot button subject for members of Durham INC.  I could use a refresher course on why installing mailboxes at the curb is such a terrible idea?  The postal service is trying to keep it's head above water, and at a time when all government offices are squeezing every last penny, is it such a bad thing to ask a community to go to curbside delivery?  


I've had a mailbox at the curb for 18 years, in east Durham.  My first home was near Southern High School and now I"m in Grove Park.  I don't see the mailboxes in my neighborhood as ugly, it's merely a utility of sorts.  There are green boxes for the phone/cable company, larger green boxes for the power company, and curbside mailboxes.  Many, if not all, of my neighbors have flowers, bushes, etc around their mailbox.

Is it simply "change" to something new that is the problem here?  Change can be a difficult thing.  

 
Christine Chamberlain


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 From: "TheOcean1 at aol.com" <TheOcean1 at aol.com>
To: mike.e.king at usps.gov; inc-list at durhaminc.org; nathanegriffin at gmail.com 
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:07 PM
Subject: [Durham INC] Fwd:  Postal Service delivery method swtich attempt
 

 Mr King,  
 
Not so long ago we had our little pow wow regarding this unacceptable 
practice, and gained your commitment that it would stop.
 
As pointed out below, the problem seems to persist, but only in certain 
neighborhoods.
Is it the USPS policy or belief that folks in affluent neighborhoods 
deserve a different quality of postal service?
 
The fact that many East Durham streets are now peppered with rural mail 
boxes, (which look rather silly in an urban setting), indicates your Post Office 
is targeting neighborhoods of lower economic status. That elevates this practice 
well beyond "unacceptable", in fact even "Un-American" would likely be too 
kind.
 
Unsavory, unethical, unimaginable all come to mind - but perhaps "Criminal" 
is most appropriate.
 
Since these employees are supposedly under your control, it's time you 
explained to the citizens of Durham how this "accident" continues on your 
watch.

Bill Anderson

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 From: cpalenchar at hotmail.com
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Sent: 8/20/2012 10:07:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight 
Time
Subj: [Durham INC] Postal Service delivery method swtich 
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 John/others-
>
>I know INC has helped many people deal with 
  this issue in the past. My new neighbor, Nathan, was just given this letter 
  asking him to put a mailbox at the curb by our mail delivery person. How 
  should he respond to this? (Nathan is on the To: of this email if you'd prefer 
  to respond just to him on how to handle the issue.)
>
>I remain completely 
  frustrated that the post office is attempting these misleading tactics. And 
  even more frustrated that they have been more successful in my community than 
  in some of the more well connected, well organized communities. It seems 
  unfair to take advantage of people who don't know better. But, that's another 
  topic.
>
>-chloe
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