My local Post Office seems to be hanging on by a thread. We get our mail at about 4:30pm most days, and the handy-dandy auto-postage machine has been taken out of the our location in favor of a more prestigious P.O.
Of course, the Franklin Post Office is located, like everything else here, near NOTHING. Losing traffic to the Post Office would be meaningless to local commerce.
However...
The prospect of losing a post office is alarming people in small towns everywhere. The post office gives area residents a reason to come to town — and patronize other businesses there — and provides a service they count on and believe their government owes them.
(Via USATODAY.com)
Word on the street is it won't be long before our local 53132 post office is closed, along with Greendale, Oak Creek, Cudahy, and South Milwaukee. Although a large facility will be located somewhere "south." It won't be very convenient for picking up a package for those who work out of the home.
I'm never too happy now when I return home at the end of the day and find that little slip that says my package or letter will be at the post office "after 5:00 p.m. or tomorrow and requires a signature."
Posted by: Janet Evans | February 16, 2011 at 07:44 PM