Postal Delivery

Dear Editor:

There are many miles of roads in Mattapoisett. I live at the end of one of the more rural ones. The USPS serves all of the addresses, sometimes to the door, and frequently to rural postal boxes. In the not-too-distant past, when a package was too large to fit into a mail slot or a delivery box, a card was left that simply meant a trip to our friendly Post Office on Route 6 would be necessary the next day. That has changed … sort of.

Many do not know that mail for the whole of the Tri-Town area has been centralized to the Rochester Post Office. When a rural route is completed, the packages are returned and may be delivered to the local post office, according to Mr. Michael Proulx, the Rochester Postmaster. If the route is completed later in the day, your package is returned to Rochester – not Mattapoisett. Getting confused?

There is a good chance that ‘your package’ may not be delivered to your local office until after 9:00 am the next day. So if you work a normal 9-to-5 day and hoped to pick up your package before 9:00 on the way to work … you will probably be out of luck.

When I asked Mr. Proulx for an explanation for the change in policy, the answer challenged my powers of logic. When I was told that “… this is a little thing,” I responded that bacteria are little things, but when they get together, they can make a disease, and perhaps this was one of the reasons why our whole postal delivery system was hemorrhaging money and in a sea of debt.

If you have been challenged by this revamped package delivery system, why not give Mr. Proulx a call at 508-763-9528? Let him know what you think.

Sincerely,

Edward Camara Jr., Mattapoisett

 

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