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If the removal of some mailboxes is going to be the “Top News” on a major television station’s newscast, I suppose you have to punch up the story a little- but why a gun?

Mailboxes Become Casualty Of Internet Age 

You never know when someone with a video camera might be watching…

From Flickr… Oh, it’s a classic all right! Looks like someone missed this one when it was time for repainting…

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).