The Springfield (Pa) Post Office is moving from the Brookside Road site where it has sat for decades to a shiny new, much smaller spot in Olde Sproul Village on Baltimore Pike that was once Baja Fresh burrito joint. The satellite office in the Springfield Mall is being closed.
Call it progress in this Obama progressive era — higher cost and less convenience. OK, if you live in Swarthmore it will be more convenient.
U.S. Postal Service officials say the move will occur in July or August.
Bill, this is an early April Fool joke, right?
Let’s privatize it. UPS would do a much better job.
‘fraid not.
Hey, maybe a burrito joint will move in.
But for the other bright side the reply to the next reply
Isn’t there a post office in the Springfield Mall?
In February, I mailed an envelope containing a letter, a check, and a CD disk. I mailed this letter inside the post office lobby, at the wall slot.
Weeks later, the recipient of the letter called to tell me that she found the empty envelope inside her post office box at her local post office. Check, letter, CD… all gone. Hmmm.. mailed in a post office lobby, retrieved in a post office lobby… hmm..
It’s closing, if it hasn’t already.
UPS is already very convenient to Springfield residents who want to send packages with a store at 1005 Pontiac Road in Pilgrim Gardens in Drexel Hill; and at unaffiliated services centers like Mailsource Inc., 491 Baltimore Pike, and Mail Box Center Ltd., 761 W. Sproul Road.
Of course to be able to use UPS or FedEX to pay bills and send Christmas cards, the Private Express Statutes would have to be repealed.
The push to do so has become so great the United States Postal Service is offering rebuttals as to why this should not be done on its website, which basically boil down to the claim that money-losing routes would have to be tax-subsidized.
The answers to this rebuttal, of course, are “so what?” and “why not?”