It sounds like an item from the Lake Wobegon Herald Star: “Post offices dump ticket system in favor of stand-in-line system“. But it’s apparently for real- one of the “Top News” stories in the Yuma Sun actually reports on a postal service announcement that “from now on, customers should simply form a line when visiting the post office to ship a package or pick up some stamps”.

Prior to this, apparently, they’d been using one of those numbered ticket machines you see in delis or bakeries.

The postmaster seems excited but cautious about this daring innovation: “I haven’t heard any comments yet. It’s pretty fresh,” he said, adding that this is the local post office’s slowest season without the winter visitors. “Plus, it’s only August. October and November might be a truer test of the new and improved system. I think it’s going to be pretty dramatic in the winter months.”

Yuma- on the cutting edge!

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