Mail Those Letters (But Do It Quietly)

The first I've heard of a Village Post Office opening in a Public Library ... the first of its kind in Central Pennsylvania ... more specifically in Ephrata, Pennsylvania:

http://lancasteronline.com/article/...uietly-.html

Although I have never visited a Village Post Office, myself, I found this statement rather interesting:




Is this typical of ALL Village Post Offices? One would think that weighing a package would be a relatively easy thing to do.

I suspect that the problem is legal rather than logistical. I imagine that somewhere there is a Post Office Regulation that says, to avoid any legal challenges, the only scales that can be used to weigh are Official Post Office Scales personally tested by the Lord High Postal Weighmaster. And they probably don't keep enough of those to be able to hand them out to such places as this.

Those of us who actually live in central Pennsylvania don't know of any Ephrata in our area. There is an Ephrata down Lancaster way, kind of in the south-east quadrant. But thanks for trying to add a colorful town to our roster.

Contract post offices have been limited on the weight of packages they can accept since the days of the una bomber and has nothing to do with scales. Somehow the postal service thinks that a bomber will not mail a bomb that has to be handed to a postal clerk.