CARY — Vijay and Vineela Madiraju had unloaded boxes in their new home, met their neighbors and transferred bills before they realized something was wrong: Not a single letter had arrived in the new, black Imperial mailbox in front of their home.
“It took almost two weeks,” Vijay Madiraju said, before they knew the mail would never come.
By then word had spread: The Holland Farm project is one of the first new subdivisions in the state that will not get mail to its curbside boxes. And it certainly won’t be the last.
The U.S. Postal Service has said it will only drop mail for the community’s 59 houses in a cluster of mailboxes, like an apartment complex or townhouse community might use. Postal districts across the country now are allowed to implement that money-saving effort, said a Postal Service spokeswoman.
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Good. That’s how mail should be delivered. The entire nation should be finished with mail delivery by noon local time. Mail delivery should be done solely by part-time employees.