Door-to-door uptown mail delivery returns in Lake Placid
LAKE PLACID — Traditional mail delivery has returned to businesses along East Interlake Boulevard and North Main Avenue in Lake Placid. Controversial mail distribution centers — commonly called “cluster boxes” — were removed Friday.
The mail carrier who had typically brought mail to the uptown businesses instead, last week, handed out envelopes containing keys. Each key was for an assigned box in the new mail distribution centers, as far as two blocks away in some instances. The change would save the United States Postal Service about $31,800 per year, spokesman Enola Rice said.
The outcry from business owners, managers and staff was immediate. The most common complaints were a lack of notice the change was coming and a decision to install the cluster boxes without the consent of the property owners.
[Postmaster] Schmidt “was unaware that permits were required and expedited the installation of the boxes in the interest of safety,” Rice said. The safety aspect was not explained.
Jerome Bell from the USPS Orlando maintenance division pulled into the Smoke Shack BBQ parking lot at noon Friday in a stake bed truck with a liftgate to hoist the boxes. He quickly unbolted the cluster boxes and loaded them. His next stop, he said, was to collect the cluster boxes from the Health Department location.
Door-to-door uptown mail delivery returns in Lake Placid
In the original story posted here on July 10, Ms. Rice never mentioned safety as a reason for installing the cluster boxes, only money. Now that their sneaky plan has backfired they play the safety card as the reason they were in such a hurry to install them. What a crock.
did he get a PDI then a Letter of warning?
If the Postal Service & management would go by the rules in place they could save a lot of money being wasted & also in fines & penalties they have to pay to the workers for violating the contracts in place.
Also, you can bet this clown knew he needed a permit.
But in true usps mgmt stye, just like with the labor contracts, etc., he chose to ignore the rules and regulations.
Being the moron he is, he didn’t realize things work differently in the real world vs. the postal one.
Allow me to fix the title of this article, to more accurately reflect the truth:
“Postmaster unaware. Period”
Of course, as usual, no one in eas/mgmt. will be held accountable for anything.