By Mary Ann Ford – January 4, 2014 NORMAL — Residents who live in the Trails on Sunset Lake subdivision don’t have to go far to get their mail. Individual mailboxes are on posts near the curb, close to their homes on Normal’s far east side. But future residents — and those of other new…
Walking outside your house to get the mail at the curb may soon become a thing of the past. In a memo sent to the Greenville City Council, the US Postmaster reports that developers will no longer be able to choose between curb line and cluster box delivery. In April 2012, the Postal Service changed…
May 26, 2014 (NBC) – “Community,” or curbside, mailboxes would replace door delivery for millions of Americans under a bill moving through Congress. A House committee recently approved a plan to have the postal service convert 15 million addresses to communal mailboxes over the next decade. That move could save as much as two billion…
WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans would no longer get mail delivered to their door but would go to communal or curbside boxes instead, under a proposed law. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform debated Wednesday a bill to direct the U.S. Postal Service to convert 1.5 million addresses annually — 15 million over…
