The missing mailboxes of Blue Hill Avenue
By adamg - 2/5/10 - 8:09 am
Ghetto Uprising notes the strange absence of mailboxes along the street:
if my frustrated, informal, impromptu, rushed survey of Blue Hill Ave while looking for a mailbox is correct, then there are more liquor stores and churches on that street than there are mail drops. ...
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Missing mailboxes
Unfortunately a lot of these were removed after 9/11.
9/11? I don't think so
I don't see what 9/11 has to do with US mailboxes, and I haven't seen any of them taken away in my neighborhood of West Somerville and North Cambridge.
Mailbox Removal
Here's what the USPS has to say...The Postal Service periodically conducts density tests on mail collection boxes. Those boxes that have fewer than 25 pieces of mail in them per day over a two-week period are considered for removal. Nation-wide, First-Class mail volume has been decreasing significantly over the last few years, some eight billion pieces a year since 2001. We have stepped up the pace on doing density tests. ...... In fact, collection boxes around the country are being removed as a cost-cutting measure.