As a retired postal employee, I have been amazed by the lack of protest by the five counties (Whatcom, San Juan, Skagit, Island and Snohomish, and a number of towns in north King County) whose mail is processed at the Hardeson Road Center and if sent to Seattle will be delayed by a day a great deal of the time.
The powers that be that want it to be done in Seattle will insist this is not so, but from experience, most of the postal workers who work in the offices in these areas know best whether they are right or wrong. I, as a retiree, will say a great deal of the time it will not be following day delivery in a large area of these counties. It will also have a devastating effect on the workforce and jobs in this area.
I know the Postal Service has been many people’s whipping boy for years. People will say that “it’s in the mail,” and the delay is the Postal Services’s fault. Sorry, less than 2 percent of the time this is true.
It is a truth that you can mail something from here today and as a general rule it will be delivered anywhere in the lower 48 states in three working days, four in Alaskan cities or Hawaii. If I ran any kind of business that required mail service in any of these areas I would be yelling at the top of my lungs to save the service that we now have.
Yes, many of you use the internet for everything, but what about those who have no service? Some don’t use either, but you can’t send medications by internet or children’s birthday gifts without mail.
If Congress were not so set on bleeding the Postal Service of everything to make it their income, we would not be in this situation. Why tie the hands of the Postal Service further by cutting services?
Lucile Goneau
Everett
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