The bust amid the boom: Gladstone, Taylor residents meet with USPS as it plans to cut hours
November 14, 2012 at 6:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
TAYLOR Shortened hours are coming for some rural North Dakota post offices and Taylor is one community that could be getting the short end of the stick. Continue Reading
It’s really kind of sad for some folks in rural areas where often the highlight of the day is the trip to the post office. A time to see people you might not get a chance to at other times. The post master or mistress is often the conduit for talk about others and very often a sounding board for often lonely rural people.
Older people aren’t as adept to changes in rural life. Many of us even remember ‘party lines’ and how the gossip flew over the wires then. The local post office is kind of like the old rural general store where people went daily to get “something they needed” but often it was an excuse to interact with their neighbors and the store clerks.
Times are changing radically. Just yesterday in the news about how the post office is another fifteen billion with a “B” dollars in debt. So much for it “not” being a government run agency” anymore.
If people really feel the need for the postal service to still depend on the tax payers to bail them out, then they ought to embrace “User Fees” and start paying a whole bunch more for the convenience of it continuing the way it has in the past. Obviously all the junk mail we sort through isn’t enough to keep them solvent.
Rural life can be pretty tough at times, but at least you don’t have unsavory characters walking by your house all day and night! I’ve chosen my words carefully as not to offend the PC police!
GOT BAKKEN?
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