01-15-2025, 01:37 AM
(01-15-2025, 12:53 AM)Obie Wrote: When Vacationland needed more mailboxes the postmaster in Pahoa told me they were no longer providing new CBU's and that we would have to buy our own.
This was 20 years ago and I remember it well because the 4 CBU's and shipping came to just over $10,000.
I put it on my American Express card and got a bunch of Skymiles.
No one challenged the postmaster's response? No one researched how others, in similar situations, were receiving their mail? Setting this type of precedent just allows more of the same.
Do you honestly think the USPS "providing" mailboxes to HPPOA (or any substandard subdivision) is doing HPP Owners (or ANY owners) any favors? Think about it. IF the USPS did not "generously" hand over mailboxes, and instead told HPP owners, "Sorry, but we aren't going to deliver to you anymore until you shell out a million dollars in mailboxes," that HPP Owners would have gone along with that? I don't think so. I think there would have been a lot of VERY upset owners.
The USPS does not do anything for free. They can't afford to. The USPS "provided" mailboxes because it was easy for them. They would look generous and HPPOA would "sell" the idea to HPP owners, helping the USP avoid a massive customer outcry (and more bad publicity).