It seems that despite earlier reports (rumors?) to the contrary, next-day mail delivery will not go away after upcoming changes to local postal services. Our mail will head up the road to Omaha to be processed and postmarked, but Lincoln-to-Lincoln mail will still be delivered the next day. Supposedly.
There are many things wrong with the postal service and I don't pretend to have any answers to the big questions it faces. I do, however, think it's a shame that they haven't already moved to mandatory multi-unit boxes (or whatever they're called) rather than door-to-door or streetside delivery. Dropping off mail at every address in town is remarkably inefficient. Think of the millions that would be saved in fuel costs alone! Then again, millions are mere pennies (so to speak) compared to USPS's overall situation.
All of these changes at USPS make me wonder if they're second-guessing not closing down the Haymarket post office to make way for the arena. After all, there's a nonzero chance that facility will be kaput within the next five or ten years. For once USPS could have been ahead of the curve rather than behind. Alas, it was not to be. Instead, that building is left to sit in the shadow of the latest and greatest developments going up.
How symbolic.
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My brother is a usps carrier and he gets frustrated with the lack of combined boxes and street side boxes.
What he has told me is that the postal service right now can not require that a person change how they get their mail. If a person has a box on their porch, they can not tell them they must get a street-side box, nor can they tell a multi-unit that has boxes inside that they must use a combined box outside.
They can tell a new home owner that they will be moving that person’s mailbox to the street or elsewhere. They can also, as much as they are able to, require that a new home or apartment have a particular kind of box.
This is just one of the many postal inefficiencies that can not be changed without action from congress. There seem to be a lot of things that both the Postal Service and the common citizen look at and readily identify as something that needs changed
Just imagine-getting to know your neighbors at the post box picking up your mail. Neat!
Congress is too busy mandating what they can stick in a woman’s uterus that they are uninterested in mandating where the postal carrier can stick one’s mail.
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