As far as removing the physical blue neighborhood PO boxes, the boxes bolted down, ours went away back in the early 1990's. Back in the 90's the PO took away every one of the neighborhood boxes to cut costs and to free up the mailman from having to check all of those boxes. It was expected that people should use their home mail box instead to put outgoing main into then pull up the red flag to let the mailman (mail person) know you have mail going out. OR... you could always drive to a local mail facility and drop your mail into that bolted-down blue box. So frankly, I don't see the big deal with removing the neighborhood drop-off boxes. People can use their home mail box for outgoing mail and swing up the red flag, or drive to one of your local facilities and drop the mail off there. I would never trust a neighborhood drop off box anyway. I mailed a car payment in a neighborhood mailbox back in the 1990's and the bank never received it. Then to weeks later the entire box was GONE. So, I suspect knowing they were going to remove that box entirely, the mailman had quit checking it weeks before the box went bye bye and my payment to the bank was probably still inside that box when the postal truck removed the box entirely. I'm guessing it would be the more old-fashion less advanced deep-southern states and cities that still heavily rely on the neighborhood blue mailbox. Where as most other states and cities have removed the neighborhood boxes entirely way before Trump came along. I also hear that you can still make a pay phone call for only a dime down in those southern states.
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