Island loses a cherished tradition: mail delivery to trash can [Maine]

Bangor Daily News ^ | August 1 2008 | Bill Trotter

[Daffynition]

Sutton Island summer residents Matsae Walsh (left) and Shea Howell tie up a boat at the island dock Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Some of the people who stay on the island are upset because the U.S. Postal Service no longer delivers mail to the island because the receiving facility was the garbage can on the dock (right). (Bangor Daily News/Gabor Degre)

[jimtorr]

....the U.S. Postal Service has a mandate to deliver mail to secure mailboxes.....

Nonsense. The USPS delivers mail to millions of nonsecure mailboxes every day.

[MrLee]

Maine - the way life USED to be.......

It’s getting to be the pits up here - in more ways than one.

[nuconvert]

It’s ridiculous. My mailbox isn’t secure and neither are those of any of my neighbors. Anyone can open it - which is why the Post Office periodically warns people not to leave mail sitting in it or leave their outgoing bills with checks in it because they can easily be stolen.
There must be tens of millions of people who get mail delivered in unsecure boxes

[Daffynition]

If anyone thought otherwise, we have lost our innocence as a people. This incident has emphasized the fact that the day of leaving your doors unlocked or allowing a child to walk to the neighbor’s place is long gone. I weep.

The Cranberries are such a wonderful place to kayak. The osprey nest on the rocks at the northwest end of Sutton Island is wonderful!

[CGASMIA68]

part of the reason is because the info age fiber and DSL has allowed the libs to leave the city work from home and infiltrate the woods. Seen it here in Ct once they arrive they want to change the rules to fit their likes and dislikes.......
EX#1"whats is that awful smell?","Its the dairy farm up the road and its called cow crap","Its disgusting cant they do something about it?"
EX#2 provided by the 2 lesbo heffers that walk my county road.
"Cant you do something about that saging barn?(1778)",Tell you what you dont look at it I wont look at your fat asses when you waddle by".....
geeezz they dont say hi any more,GOOD

[Daffynition]

Depends on what your definition of 'secure' is. Looks secure to me. ;)

[Lokibob]

#3- City folk move from Salt Lake City to my little town because it is the country. Then they complain because the roosters crow at 5 am.

.....Bob

[festus]

the usps has a long tradition of delivering my mail to other people. I met half my neighbors as we redistribute mail to the recipients.

[bboop]

Are you in Maine, then? We were just there last weekend — Orr’s Island — from Los Angeles.

It is beautiful up there. Now my husband wants to be a lobsterman. Please advise. :)

[bboop]

Haha, you said that when they complained about your barn? hahah. Good for you. We had city folks moving into eastern California one year. They started complaining that they had to take their trash to the dump!! And moved home shortly thereafter. Bye ...

[AlbertWang]

the practice came to the attention of senior postal officials a few months ago when someone on the island called the new postmaster in Northeast Harbor and complained that the outgoing mail she had placed in the trash can was not being picked up quickly enough.

These people did it to themselves. If they had not complained everything would still be OK.

[meyer]

Since when is complaining about poor service "doing it to yourself"? If the postal service were doing it's job in a timely manner (yeah, right), people would not have complained.

The modern postal service is a joke - higher rates and less service. A little competition is what is needed. It's time to break up the monopoly.

[coolbreeze]

Here on Virginia’s Eastern Shore,we haul our trash to “green boxes”(because they’re painted green,no eco-weenie reason) that are placed around the county.These boxes are better than a department store..2 wks ago I picked up an HP laser printer...works like a champ! I swear the local antique shop owners drive by the boxes constantly, looking for a discarded treasure.

[Vision]

According to U.S. Postal Service spokesman Tom Rizzo, the practice came to the attention of senior postal officials a few months ago when someone on the island called the new postmaster in Northeast Harbor and complained that the outgoing mail she had placed in the trash can was not being picked up quickly enough.

Heh.

[bert]

.....The USPS delivers mail to millions of nonsecure mailboxes every day......

Yes, but..... my unsecured mail box, the one with the red flag on the side, is a USPS Approved mail box.

A weather proof galvanized steel receptacle generally used as a trash can is not.

[Daffynition]

Maybe so .... but the “new” postmaster was a flatlander ... mark my wordz. ;-)

[CGASMIA68]

ahe-ya,betcha

[Daffynition]

Now my husband wants to be a lobsterman. Please advise. :)

I know you didn't ask me, but I couldn't resist. Tell your hubby that anytime he gets the hankering for Maine lobsta, just lobstergram yourselves as many as you want of those succulent critters, and I do mean *ANY* amount. In the end, you'll come out way ahead of the game ... don't ask me how I know ... ahem...cough...cough. 8-P

[MrLee]

Visit. Don’t move here.
Highest (or close to it) taxes in nation, energy costs, medical costs, health insurances, after 20 or so years of Democrat/RINO control.

Used to be a nice place to live with conservative family values, etc, now it might as well be Massachusetts or San Francisco......