Dear Editor,
I am a letter carrier with mostly curbside deliveries. In my
experience the vast (say, 99 percent) of blocked boxes are the
customers own cars when there are no cars in their four-car
driveway, or garbage cans EXACTLY where the customer left them (we
have robot-arm trucks
– straight up and down.)
Dear Editor,
I am a letter carrier with mostly curbside deliveries. In my experience the vast (say, 99 percent) of blocked boxes are the customers own cars when there are no cars in their four-car driveway, or garbage cans EXACTLY where the customer left them (we have robot-arm trucks – straight up and down.)
Blocked boxes are caused by total inconsideration by the customers (who will cry next year when stamps go up to pay the overtime to serve their blocked boxes) who deserve as much consideration as they give – none.
Ed Healey, Edison, NJ
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Dear Editor,
Congratulations to the Dispatch and Dennis Chatham for preserving the right of Gilroy citizens to obstruct the approaches to their mailboxes.
Perhaps other communities across the country will profit by the example of Gilroy’s success. Snowplows in Flagstaff need plow only the middle parts of the roads in winters to come; mail carriers can dismount at each box and wade through the drifts to reach the curb.
Patricia Finley and the other carriers on the nation’s 220,000 city routes will be paid for the extra time required for the dismounts. They work by the hour. But carriers on the 60,000 rural routes, who are compensated on a piecework system, will dismount on their own time. They can probably cancel any subscriptions they may have to the Dispatch. They won’t have time to read it anyway.
Jim Sears, Bloomington, IL
