Via Ray K. Erku at The Post Independent
Parachute joins several Colorado towns considering action against US Postal Service.
Diana Lawrence was delivered some bad news explaining why her mail wasn’t at the post office.
“‘We don’t hold boxes unless we have a PO box on there,'” Lawrence said, relaying what she was told by a postal worker. The PO box number has to be on the package for the local post office to hold it. “And, yeah, I lit ’em up.”
Lawrence owns a mercantile store on First Street in Parachute, an area in which city leaders look to revamp commercially. She was waiting on a personalized sign she ordered for a customer. The sign did make it to the United States Post Office in Parachute from Michigan. But because it didn’t have a PO box noted on its package, the post office sent it back to its original departure. Read the Full Story Here