Mail delivery could return to homes on Cornell Street, more than a year after concern over a neighborhood dog prompted the U.S. Postal Service to stop carrying letters and packages to those residences. The city council has granted Concord’s postmaster, Nicole French, permission to install a six-unit neighborhood collection box at the corner of Noyes […]
On March 4, 2014 USPS was assigned a patent (8,661,862) developed by Ryszard K. Mikolajczyk, Chicago, and Taurris D. Baskerville, Schaumburg, Ill., for a “cluster box mail delivery unit having security features.” The patent application was filed on June 29, 2005 (11/168,471).
Bozeman, MT – The mailboxes on Durston Road at Sage Bloom Court were damaged on the morning of Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the United States Postal Service, believe that the mailboxes were damaged in an attempt to gain access to and steal mail.
As parts of the Inland Empire experience a rash of thefts from community mailboxes, U.S. postal authorities caution customers to empty the receptacles every day. The mailboxes, also known as cluster boxes, are cemented into the ground in many shopping centers and newer housing developments to allow letter carries to deposit mail for a dozen […]
HOUSTON — Judy Paskins hasn’t had a single card or bill delivered to her new home in an upscale Katy subdivision since moving there six months ago from Michigan. It’s not because old friends or bill collectors have forgotten her. The 62-year-old retired nurse is just one of hundreds of families in new developments surrounding […]
PARK HILLS, MO (KTVI)– A fight over mailboxes has some residents in St. Francois County angry with the postal service. Georgia Tinnon is upset with the post office. According to a letter, Tinnon and her Lake Timberline neighbors received in June, the Park Hills post office informed the residents it wasn’t their policy to deliver […]
U.S. Post Office pushing community mail boxes in new subdivisions CLIFTON PARK — The free standing mail box at the end of the driveway is going to be just a memory for residents buying homes in new subdivisions.