04-20-2013, 06:02 AM
My mail box cluster on Paradise Dr was vandalized a year or two back. I think there was one other instance around the same time. After the more recent car accident with the other bank of boxes nearer the top of Paradise Dr a few months back, I also "heard" the post office would no longer pay to replace the boxes. We the box holders would need to pay in the future. (and as far as I know, those are the only incidents that caused major damage)
If the post office has no money to pay for a couple of plastic boxes to install on the side of the road, with no cost for the land the boxes sit on, how would they have the funds to buy land to expand the existing post office, as well as build an addition to house all of the new HPP boxes at the Keaau post office (or HPP office)? They would save a little money since they no longer would pay the carriers, but the carriers don't get paid that much. I can't imagine it's enough to build a structure to federal standards, and run air conditioning all the time as they do for the existing boxes. What we have now is already the cheapest, most cost effective system.
If the post office has no money to pay for a couple of plastic boxes to install on the side of the road, with no cost for the land the boxes sit on, how would they have the funds to buy land to expand the existing post office, as well as build an addition to house all of the new HPP boxes at the Keaau post office (or HPP office)? They would save a little money since they no longer would pay the carriers, but the carriers don't get paid that much. I can't imagine it's enough to build a structure to federal standards, and run air conditioning all the time as they do for the existing boxes. What we have now is already the cheapest, most cost effective system.
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