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PRC posts collection box database

Posted in Doug Carlson, PRC, collection boxes, postal by brian on the July 12th, 2006

Doug Carlson, a frequent consumer intervenor in postal rate cases, alerted us to the database of collection box data now posted on the Postal Rate Commission web site:

“The data show the location and collection times for every collection in the country. The Postal Service resisted release of the data for several years, but a federal judge ordered the Postal Service last year to release the data in response to my Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.”

Note that the data is from January of 2005.

Click here to download the database (it’s a 15 megabyte .zip file, containing six Excel spreadsheets with the actual data).

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  1. For Pete's Sake said, on July 19th, 2006 at 2:00 pm

    What is the point?

  2. Toby Thaler said, on February 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    The point is to be able to find mail boxes in my neighborhood. With the pick up hours. What’s so hard to understand?

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