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Originally Posted by Bavarian
Any one wanting to do away with rural post Offices and their P.O. Boxes, never lived in a rural area. Many of these post offices were in the general store and people came there for their mail, no home delivery. And they traveled from their farms. New areas have rural post boxes at the end of the driveways for over forty years.
I know a development built in mid '70s, the builder did not like post boxes so he built community post boxes at the end of each cul-de-sac. But the newspapers put their boxes at each driveway, so no benefit.
The USPS does a good job as they must deliver everywhere in all 50 states.
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There good and bad to that!!! The good part is, the customers come to the little Post Office to pick up their mail, but the bad part is, The Postal Service is renting the building (and the costs that go with the building). I think that's why The Postal Service wants to go to a more centralized way of delivering the mail, with more customers in one section. (again, like The Villages) They are also trying to negotiate with local Super Markets for free space, so they can have postal service in a building that has no cost factors. Like I had said before, it's a win, win situation. The PO gets free space, (no charge for electric, rent etc) and the Supermarket has more customers coming to their store. Of course that just a tiny savings, to the overall picture!! I would love to see the Postal Service survive, but I think the younger generation doesn't see it that way. Just hope the importance of receiving birthday cards, sometimes checks, Christmas cards, and other important letters, lives on forever. Eliminating Saturday delivery, would be a good start!!