KJ emailed us to let us know that the big blue mailboxes on the corners of 67th St. and 10th Ave. and 63rd and 11th will be removed next week.
According to Ernie Swanson, spokesman for the post office, a “volume density study” is conducted on mailboxes over a two week period. If there are 25 items or less in the box each day, then it’s a candidate for removal.
The postal service has been removing boxes throughout the country for six to eight years as first class mail usage has declined with the growth of email. KJ also says that “the other nearby box (14th & 58th) was never replaced after the road construction project a few months ago.”
Neighborhood mailboxes to be removed
Are these boxes available for sale?.
Would like to recycle USPS blue removed boxes since they are secure and lockable.
The post office seems to have no understanding of how inconvenient it is to have to walk or drive for more than a mile to deliver a letter, or of the dangers of leaving mail in one's own mailbox. (I just had a Netflix DVD stolen from my mailbox this morning. I had attached it to the outside of my mailbox to be picked up by the mail carrier.)