Posted on 08/14/2009 10:52:17 AM PDT by JoeProBono
OTISFIELD, Maine, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Officials in Otisfield now say residents get to keep the small Maine town's sole mailbox after the U.S. Postal Service had announced it would be removed.
The officials said they have struck a deal to allow the town, which does not have a post office, to keep the only mailbox available to residents, WMTW-TV, Auburn, Maine, reported Thursday.
The decision made last month to remove the box triggered multiple complaints from residents. One woman threatened to chain herself to the mailbox to keep it from being removed.
The Postal Service initially said the box averaged only six pieces of mail per day and they had planned to remove it as a cost-cutting measure.
Looks like a T-1000 trying to pass as a T-X.
thanx.
“The population was 1,560 at the 2000 census. “
I bet before computers they had more than 6 pieces of mail a day. Shows the losing battle the USPS is facing.
Actually there are probably more rural roads in all of Texas than in New England yet if you follow the gub'mint money trail, our highway funds are syphoned off up north. Texas doesn't get its' share of the gas tax money that is collected.
ROFLMBO! :~) Did you make that up?? I like it!
It is truly amazing what one sees on the internet!
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