I read the recent letter about the postal service and agree 100 percent and [want] to say that this is not only happening in West Virginia.
In North Carolina, where I reside, a small rural (money-making) post office was closed just out of the blue with no explanations or anything. A member of the town council approached the postal service to see if they would come back if the town built a new town hall and added a section for the post office and charged them $1 a year. They were not interested and, basically, said that these tactics were to make the public mad enough to contact their congressman so they (the postal service) could get more money. It’s all about greed.
Remember when the residential carriers drove their own vehicles to their route, delivered part of it and picked up the next section of their route in a storage box on the corner? The drop off in the storage boxes was done by one person in one truck. Now, every carrier has a vehicle where they drive a block and deliver and drive another block and deliver again. It would be nice to know how much money is wasted each year by the postal service on all of these vehicles. Oh, and they are being paid union wages, which are much higher than the normal wages paid most jobs.
Like I said, it’s all about greed.
Chuck Granger
Grahan, N.C.
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