SUGAR HILL, N.H. — This little town in the White Mountains is not at the forefront of the digital revolution. Just about half of its residents still cannot connect to broadband service.
Yet Sugar Hill is enduring e-mail’s toll on the Postal Service. With fewer letters being sent, the agency has announced cutbacks to hours at post offices across the nation. The small white building where Sugar Hill’s residents send and receive their mail is among the most drastically affected by postal budget trims.
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The poobah-in-chief of the whole United States of America - the guy who decides what drone to fire at what terrorist, and what illegal aliens can stay illegally in the nation, and what troops will be sent and when they will come home - was in New Hampshire yesterday, 25 June 2012. Of course he was a bit south from Sugar Hill, but surely somebody in the little burg once vacation home to a Supreme Court Justice owns a car that would have reached Durham before the Presidential campaign cheapskates and their probably cheapskate boss showed up. The Sugar Hill representative could have at least tried to meet an Obama close cronie to gripe about the inconsideration that even the North New England postal service poobah admits Sugar Hill folks were treated with in the manner of their post office services being all but extinguished. Barry the O was joker-in-chief 25 June, so he could have used some materiel for the Oyster high school mob - wouldn't a barely servicing its public rural postal facility in way in the woods, New Hampshire have had at least as much funny to it as the Youklis trade to Chicago? Anyway, the teeney errant post office should have been brought to Barry the O's attention given that he was in New Hampshire trying to squeeze more votes out of a once stalwartly Republican voting public. Maybe he would have been chagrined for what his administration is doing to 560 folks in a teeney Granite State town, and maybe he would have had mercy. But you can bet that none of the typical, run-of-the-mill hacks that man presdidential appearances was going to take a risk of offending the joker-in-chief by griping about the travails of one dinky little rural post office. No sense in bothering a ******-in-chief whose only concern was humor and ways to filch as many bucks as possible out of pockets in Massachusetts (and probably more than a few in the 'Live Free or Die' state too.
The purpose of the USPS is not to provide a social center, meeting room or other small town amenity. The sole purpose is to be the interface between the public and the Postal Service. Stop boo hooing and go gather at a local coffee shop
What the hell have you been smoking?
Things change--Its called modernization. I miss the pony express, lamplighters and elevator operators. I'm sure the building owner is going to miss the $400.00 a month. Move on folks the Chinese and others are eating our lunch, If it is not cost effective cuts MUST be made, that's capitalism. You will survive.
My comma key doesn't work very well. Solly, lolly.