Is your local Post Office on the endagered species list

[Po_d Mainiac]

http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/expandedaccess/statelist.htm
....
Let's fuck rural America just a bit harder :grr:

[CleanGreenFuture]

1. Look, what people refuse to understand is that the civilization we were

born into is collapsing.

This is merely one aspect of the collapse.

NASA is another. And I could go on. But no one fucking listens!

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. Or perhaps people are simply using other means to communicate and ship packages

Did you know that prior to 1950, the USPS delivered mail twice a day? Was reducing delivery to once a day a sign of societal collapse?

[CleanGreenFuture]

12. It is certainly some of that, I'll grant you. But the same cannot be said about

NASA, or about the economy at large, with thousands upon thousands of businesses closing, jobs lost, and lives ruined.

Time will bear out for others whether or not we are actually in a collapse. For me, it's obvious.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. And it sold money orders and had savings accounts for areas with no bank...

all further signs of the fall of the republic.

As with Amtrak, NASA, and other generally good things-- blame the assholes in Congress for not funding it properly.

The PO is supposed to make a profit now that it is semi-private, and how do the whiners propose they do that in the face of the hundreds of millions it's losing.

Fewer bills being mailed or paid by mail, fewer magazines, less junk mail, almost no personal letters any more...

What are they supposed to do?

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. My little town in MO still got twice a day mail delivery in the early 70s.

I didn't know that was not standard. Maybe it was such a small town that if the postman did not deliver 2x/day he wouldn't have anything to do.

[FirstLight]

16. +100

*sigh* it is a process of creation and entropy, right...?

...and there will be many, so many, who will stand in defiance and denial even as the cities crumble at their feet...

:hug: hang in there!

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[Po_d Mainiac]

21. Ayuh

Private will pick up some of the slack for NASA...moving payloads that are profitable...but the mission that is for pure science, fergetaboutit

As for USPS...again those routes/zips/offices that can post good margins, will become privatized.....and screw the rest

Hey Greece, don't feel like you are alone. :sad:

[Brickbat]

2. Are these proposed, or for sure? The ones in my area that are going to be closed aren't just rural,

but several are in economically disadvantaged areas, too. One of them is in a federal building! WTF?

[Po_d Mainiac]

9. under review

The United States Postal Service announced today it is reviewing 3,700 retail locations across the country for possible closure. (A list is here.)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/26/138706193/is-your-post-office-closing-usps-is-studying-shuttering-3-700-locations

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. 3 of the listed PO s in my area are in VERY poor communities

and I note that one in Mobile ( the one I know about for sure) is in a VERY poor community.
Also happen to be mostly black communities.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Delete - system duped

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Yes. The one a few blocks from my house

Which makes no sense. It is ALWAYS packed. I can't remember ever being in there with less than 6 people ahead of me.

[villager]

5. Veterans, too. The quite handy post office in L.A.'s westside VA is slated

...for the axe....

[rurallib]

6. Thank you for that list. We have been looking for it.

[kick-ass-bob]

7. 20 on the slate in NC: 2 in Raleigh, 1 in Winston, 1 in Durham

and none in Charlotte (biggest city), Greensboro, High Point (3rd biggest county), Cary, or Fayetteville which are all the cities over 100,000 population.

The other 16 come from rural NC.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. The USPS seems to have started by trimming the ZIP codes in New England.

Looks like some idiot specified ZIPs as a numeric value. That sort of quality control is really telling.
(For those who don't know, New England ZIPs start with a zero.)


What I noticed is that post offices on islands are getting chopped. It's not as if people can drive to the next nearest one, and some islands don't have easy access to the mainland. How expenses are these little remote outposts anyway? It's not as if the USPS is going to stop delivery mail there -- at least not yet --- so there's still going to be at least one bag drop and pickup each postal day.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Arkansas State Capital post office is on the list

[Lars39]

15. For the little towns in TN that I'm acquainted with, whose PO are being closed,

I think it would be a real hardship on the residents to get to the nearest post office. :(

[Shagbark Hickory]

18. Holy shit! Actually, yes!

[Jazz Ambassador]

20. A lot of the ones on the DC list are in Federal buildings, including mine

I suspect that instead some other vendor in the building will take over selling stamps and flat-rate boxes.

The one in my neighborhood is also on the list, but it has notoriously bad service (surly personnel, no change when you try to pay with cash) and is close to a FedEx/Kinkos with really great customer service. I can guess what's going on there.

[necso]

22. I wish the lists

were in somewhat more usable order (by zip code maybe); but perhaps I'm missing something (like another version of the lists). (Although browsers commonly have a search (Find) function that allows users to search the displayed page.)

Notably, the Post Office is in the Constitution; and the Constitution doesn't seem to state anything about the Post Office paying for itself.

Of course, the wrong-wing radicals would like to privatize basically everything; and if the corporatists can't make a satisfactory (and ever-increasing) profit exploiting your niche market (ie, you), well then, you must do without.

[JDPriestly]

23. Fortunately, those in my area are not on the list although I heard

they were being closed. And they are always busy when I go there.