Dale: When I lived in East Central Kansas for a while, we had a mailbox where a section road intersected a blacktop road, and it was mounted on what probably was a fence post. It was a convenient target for kids with .22s and air rifles, and had to be replaced pretty frequently. I'm not sure what determines whether someone in a rural area gets mail delivered or not. I've lived in a couple small towns where if you wanted mail you rented a box from the Postal Service. The Post Office in the US is a quasi-government corporation, which means they do get subsidized significantly. Because they've been losing tremendous amounts of money for years, attempts are underway to close a lot of post offices. It's a problem for a lot of places, because nobody wants their particfular post office to close down.
Bill Stephan Kansas Citty MO Email: wstep...@everestkc.net Phone: (816)803-2469 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens <dleav...@puc.net> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:23 pm Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Mailbox Post > Victor! > > We don't have mail delivery in this town. Many people get their > mail dropped in a postal box at the corner of a concession road or > at the entry to a subdivision in many many parts of the country. > Our stamps cost exactly the same as yours. Frankly, I resent the > services you take for granted that I have to pay for. I could > stick a box on a post anywhere I like around here and with luck > the only thing it would get put in it would be a family of birds. > > Yes, we do have to trek through the snow and rain and what ever > else to collect our mail and to send it too and we pay the same > federal taxes as you do. We pay more for gasoline and milk and > eggs and just about everything else so to that extent we pay more > taxes than you. Next month Janet has a mammogram booked. to take a > cab would cost $120 each way, what would it cost your wife? > > You city folk have it so soft and you don't even know it. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Victor > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:13 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Mailbox Post > > > Hi Dale, > > If you pay your taxes, then you most certainly have a right to > how you get > your mail delivered. > > When you live in a particular county, you are essentially > telling the county > that you agree to abide by their rules and policies. > > In addition, by you paying your property taxes, you are giving > them silent > consent to make any rules you wish them to make at town hall > meetings and > the like. > > I'll bet if you were to ask those 100000 people if they enjoyed > having to > trek out in a snow storm to collect their mail from the post > office, I'll > bet the majority of them would say no. > > Your taxes, be they provincial, municipal and federal taxes pay > for post > services. The stamps you pay for, the delivery charges, all of > that amounts > to paying someone to do something for you. > > Would you be happy to go pick up your dinner from a pizza > parlour if you > were paying them to deliver it? > > I'm sorry, but living in this country, you have certain rights, > and those > rights include managing your mail. > > If the government is going to take responsibility for mail > delivery, then > they should be responsible for how they get it to you, > especially when > you're paying for it. Oh, and none of the bull about us having > it cheap for > mail delivery, have you seen how much postal workers make and > the benefits > they get? > > Happy about it indeed. > > Victor > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
