[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.

[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.

[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.