Arcadia Mayor Calls Postmaster an ‘Idiot’ over relocation of drive-through post boxes

Arcadia Mayor calls postmaster an ‘idiot’ over relocation of drive-through post boxes, Post Office is apparently “Out of Order”

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By Terry Miller

Last week, we told you a tale of the ever-perplexing post office … the move of the perfectly fine drive through mail boxes behind the main PO in Arcadia to the red zone on the street, where no one can safely mail a letter without some form of serious contortion. Now this new wrinkle. Tell us, please … how can a Post Box be “out of Order”… does it really require all this and ‘caution’ tape too as if it were a crime scene. Well, actually it kind of is.

Referring to the less-than-brilliant move of said drive-through post boxes on Santa Clara, Arcadia Mayor John Wou called Arcadia’s postmaster an ‘idiot’ at last week’s city council meeting and ended with this pointed zinger … “any 6 year-old will know that is wrong.”

Whoever was responsible for this absurd bit of planning in Arcadia truly needs their heads examined as we stated last week, and we are not alone.

These perfectly fine drive-up post boxes were recently relocated from a safe drive through in the rear of the Arcadia post office. Now someone, in his infinite wisdom, has placed the mail boxes on the sidewalk on the street with the openings to boxes facing north. Now, this is all well and good, if we simply drive on the left, as we do in the U.K. You see my point, I hope.

So you see , everything is now not only backwards but one box is out of order. We watched on several occasions during the last week only to see cars back up while drivers attempt to outstretch their arms to the passenger seat and hopefully jettison a letter into the box. You add that to the fact that people driving west on Santa Clara illegally turn left all the time over a double yellow line just to get in to 24 hour Fitness parking lot and you have instant gridlock…now they are put caution signs on the boxes.
‘Please, Please Mr. Postman Look and See, is there a letter, a Letter for Me’

Come on Post Office, you can do better than this, can’t you?

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