On page A3 of your April 28 issue, you carried an Associated Press article entitled “Smaller towns adjusting to post office changes.” It is absolutely unbelievable papers such as yours would carry something like this without at least an accompanying article to rebut some of the info put forth in this article. It is very apparent that the Postmaster General and his staff as well as a number of members of Congress are more interested in destroying the Post Office than helping it to survive.
Cutting the Saturday delivery, forcing citizens give up door to door delivery by going to cluster boxes at the end of the block, cutting hours at local post offices, and other ill advised cuts in service should be the signal for companies like the T-R, and postal patrons everywhere to rise up against such foolish cuts. The last paragraph of your article vividly shows what happens when service is cut-the customers go some where else where service is still available. There is no segment of the U.S. Government that directly reaches out and touches as many of its citizens on an almost daily basis as does the U.S. Post Office.
Postal patrons should rise up against foolishness