[ConservaTexan]

...remote communities where the post office is often the heart of the town...

Maybe in 1811, not so in 2011. (Posted from a remote community)

[bert]

-—(Posted from a remote community)——

I have occasion to travel into south east Kentucky along the new and much improved US23. The hiway follows the old route from coal village to coal village for miles and miles. Much of the area is now a continuous strip city. Even off the main road many of the villages have grown toward each other and roads are improved to the point that it is easy to go from one to another.

Each of these villages has a post office. One big facility could serve many of the small ones, likely better than now.

Also, the USPO no longer serves as it once did. There is UPS and Fedex. Local shops service all three, including selling stamps and other postal services. The need that once was is no more.

[Eska]

Here along the Yukon, they won't close a fed park that spends millions and is used as a private park for govt, they chase the locals out.

Then they want to close our post office? What do you do when there is no road to where you live besides moving????? Mailing canned goods in is our main way of getting food here from Sams.

I think they better get their priorities figured out.

[and so?]

...remote communities where the post office is often the heart of the town...

Maybe in 1811, not so in 2011. (Posted from a remote community)

You got that right.

I live near a town of >500 people...there's >1000 people in the whole zip code according to the 2000 census (I doubt it will change much)

We have a large, modern, brick PO with two employees...far larger than our needs, and all the homes are serviced by rural carriers.

Within a 20 mile radius of that PO are 5 more POs including a large PO servicing a town of about 7000.

I've often wondered why the Postal service didn't just close all POs within a 25 mile radius of the big one and service everyone with rural carriers as that's how we get our mail anyway.

A quick map check tells me they could close 11 post offices (minimum).

Too much waste

[kcvl]

Maybe in 1811, not so in 2011. (Posted from a remote community)

Yes, the geniuses in our small town moved the post office from the middle of downtown to the edge of the city limits, the farthest location from any business in town. Now they have drop-off locations in some of the stores downtown.