[pct-l] PCT post office closures

[aslive at charter.net]

Wow!  That is interesting.  I live in a small town near Big Bear in the 
San Bernardino Mountains and no one up here gets their mail delivered. 
We all have P.O. boxes.  This is not due to distance or isolation but 
because it snows in the winter and postal deliveries would create a 
safety hazerd on the narrow plowed roads... or so I have been told. 
That is one of the things I love about government agencies, consistency 
in the application of policy.  :)

Shepherd


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Tortoise wrote:

> 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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