Apparently, the US Postal Service's financial situation has extended to their having to curtail promoting the regional Toys for Tots campaign in Florida:
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The post office may have saved the day in A Miracle on 34th Street, but Donica says it crippled this year's Toys for Tots campaigns.
Every year, the charity partners with the Postal Service for a Letter Carriers Toy Drive in early December. Postal customers leave new, unwrapped toys at their mailboxes, and letter carriers collect them for Toys for Tots.
To promote the regional event, the Postal Service has delivered for free a flier with the details. For years, about 2 million have been mailed to households in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties, each with their own Toys for Tots campaigns run by the U.S. Marines Corps, reservists and civilian supporters.
About a month before this year's toy drive, charity officials got word that the Postal Service would no longer distribute the flier. Local postal officials had been using a permit for official Postal Service business to deliver the flier without postage. But this year, in light of the Postal Service's financial problems, officials wouldn't allow it.
More information at this link:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/busine...tots/1265789
Posted 12/14/2012 12:08 pm
