A Seed Saver's Garden

[ducks4you]

OUR US postal service is turning into garbage.
I have never had house service since I moved to this tiny town, 2000. I have always had to go To the Post Office building and use a key to a box that I have to reapply for every year.
You would Think we would get great service.
THIS YEAR post office all over the country have been told to send local letters/parcels into the main city's postal hub, which then get driven back to our town Post Office.
So, If I mall something to my next door neighbor it now travels 90 miles back and forth, and can take a good week to go from the postal slot to the P. O. Box, 5 ft away from the postal slot.
Town snail mails all water bills. All due by the 14th of the month, from 14th-20th 10% addl charge, but still on time.
After that, payment is late. We Can turn off service, April-October for late payment,
When the billing clerk gets the bills out by at least the 4th of the month, some residents may not get their bills until the 12th of the month.
IT.IS.INFURIATRING!!!
What is More infuriating is my board who don't want to discuss emailing our bills.

 

[heirloomgal]

OUR US postal service is turning into garbage.
I have never had house service since I moved to this tiny town, 2000. I have always had to go To the Post Office building and use a key to a box that I have to reapply for every year.
You would Think we would get great service.
THIS YEAR post office all over the country have been told to send local letters/parcels into the main city's postal hub, which then get driven back to our town Post Office.
So, If I mall something to my next door neighbor it now travels 90 miles back and forth, and can take a good week to go from the postal slot to the P. O. Box, 5 ft away from the postal slot.
Town snail mails all water bills. All due by the 14th of the month, from 14th-20th 10% addl charge, but still on time.
After that, payment is late. We Can turn off service, April-October for late payment,
When the billing clerk gets the bills out by at least the 4th of the month, some residents may not get their bills until the 12th of the month.
IT.IS.INFURIATRING!!!
What is More infuriating is my board who don't want to discuss emailing our bills.

We have the same situation here ducks, if I mail something to someone here in the city (and I have because of the seeds) it travels to Toronto and back first. That's over 800 km, about 500 miles. Imagine! And people think jacking up the cost of gas + carbon tax is to reduce fuel usage? And this is not just my town, it's everywhere. Government exists to serve itself, not us.

The last (and probably only) patriot prime minister we had wanted to do away with door to door mail carriers and convert to community boxes with key access. At the time I didn't really want to lose door to door service, heck knows we pay through our nose in taxes we should get something for it. But I can see now why getting rid of this make work project was a good idea, he saw this coming.