[pct-l] PCT post office closures

[Tortoise]

So the questions occur --
    How were the ranches supplied before the ranches were inside the 
wilderness? Mule train?
     Why don't the ranches pay for their own air freight instead of 
sticking it to all of us mail users?
     Aren't the Idahoans big advocates for reducing government spending? Or 
maybe excluding what benefits them?

Tortoise

<>  Because truth matters.<>


On 2011.07.27 17:33, Ken Powers wrote:
> This whole thing reminds me of the Postal Service stopping the delivery of
> US Mail to the "in holdings" in Idaho's wildernesses. These are ranches that
> were established long before the lands became wilderness. The people living
> there depend on the mail delivery by airplane for their food and almost
> everything else. Much of Idaho raised a big flap. They found a recent speech
> made by the Postmaster General in which he stated the postal service would
> deliver mail to all postal customers on a regular basis. That pretty much
> ended the discussion. The contractors who flew the mail into these remote
> areas even got a new contract with an increased fee.
>
> We mailed several ICT re-supply boxes to these backcountry in holdings by US
> mail. When the boxes arrived at various small airports around Idaho they
> were flown into the postal patrons on their weekly postal deliveries. We
> even called the contractors and told them we were shipping fuel canisters in
> the boxes. They laughed and said no problem. When we picked up the packages
> we found that they also deliver 55-gallon barrels of  fuel to these sites.
> It was interesting seeing the way these ranches worked. No phone service
> (not even cell), but TV and internet service via satellite. No roads near
> them, but golf cart style vehicles and tractors all over (flown in by
> helicopter).
>
> Now if we could get the Idahoans interested in hitching. I grew up in Idaho
> and I remember hitching a few times.
>
> Ken
>
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