Louisiana math (and gullible reporters)
The story from the Alexandria Town Talk about the possible closing of the city’s mail processing operation presents an amazing transportation anomaly. According to the story, moving mail processing operations down the road to Lafayette would mean “mailing a letter or bill across town would take four to five days“. What’s puzzling is that in a previous story, the paper quoted an APWU official as saying that working the mail in Alexandria “allows mail delivery to anywhere in Louisiana except New Orleans in one day”.
Now that’s odd- it only takes a day to get mail from this place to anywhere in the state, but it takes four or five days to get it back from a plant 88 miles away? If you were a reporter, wouldn’t you find that a bit questionable? Apparently not in Alexandria.