New policy has USPS customers seeing red
NORWAY — Some United States Postal Service customers in Paris and Norway are wondering if the postal service cares more about the safety of its drivers than that of its customers.
Recently, customers on the southbound side of the road received a letter from Norway Postmaster Mike Anderson telling them they had 14 days to move their mailboxes across the street. The letter said it needed to be done so that carriers wouldn’t have to make left-hand turns.
“The postal service tries to avoid left-hand turns in that left-hand turn accidents cost the postal service millions of dollars in damages and injuries every year,” Anderson wrote in the letter. “Because of this hazard, we are making changes to the route to eliminate most of the left-hand turns.”
He indicated that once the change was made, the carrier will only travel on the opposite side of the street.
In a letter to the Advertiser Democrat, South Paris resident Tom Hurd expressed his frustration with the decision, saying that he had to move a previously approved five-family mail drop in a subdivision on Clover Lane.
“Having children running across Route 26 to fetch mail is far more dangerous than making a left-hand turn to drop the mail,” he wrote.
Hurd said that he may have solved the problem by having mail forwarded to a post office box, but found out that was even worse, with packages arriving later than expected.
American Airlines CEO so impressed that he has told all pilots not to make left bank turns lol.
This has nothing to do with safety.
It’s simply the usps posing as ups wannabes! Ups tries to limit left turns because they claim to save time by not waiting for traffic on left turns. Right turns generally don’t involve as much waiting. It’s simply a matter of saving a few seconds here and there in the name of efficiency. The pencil pushing bean counters like to believe they’ve made some big difference by making important decisions like this one. Never mind that if the postal carrier has to deliver a packages or a certified to the house, they will still be making that left turn, just like the ups drivers continue to do despite being told not to.
Look at us everybody, we’re a real business, too!! Just like the big boys at ups!!
The carriers are already a short distance from having an accident anyway. Letter trays stacked up so high on the left they couldn’t see the mirror or be able to turn left if they wanted to.
lefty loosey, righty tighty !!!!!!! must have been a postal MBA from Harvard to think of that lol.
How long will this last? Routes change all the time. Within 6 months they may change the route and come from a different direction. Surprised they didn’t put in a NDCBU and put it on the corner and make everyone go there to get their mail.
Ups does the same thing. It makes sense.