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Don’t shoot the mailbox!

Posted in collection boxes, postal by brian on the November 27th, 2006

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 

Video: Obsessive compulsive mailman?

Posted in collection boxes, letter carriers, postal, video by brian on the October 24th, 2006

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

Classic Mailbox

Posted in collection boxes, postal by brian on the September 14th, 2006

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

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).