Mailbox Heights In Port Angeles, Washington

One has to wonder why such things are happening in the post office:

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/a...or-mailboxes

The rural carriers who had been reimbursed mileage for use of personal cars to deliver mail, will now deliver the mail using used postal vehicles. Fine. But no cost savings to do it? Why bother then?

Yet the residents all have to re-position their mailboxes to new heights to accommodate delivery by trucks rather than cars.

If there's no cost savings to the USPS by such a move, why should residents have to be forced to pay to re-position their mailboxes?

Seems kind of foolish.

Postal Employee are probably complaining they are being forced to "stretch themselves to do their work."

Sorry to sound dumb here, but how can a car deliver mail in the USA unless it's driving down the wrong side of the road? Unless there is a driver with a passenger to put the mail in the box.


-IBFS

IBFS, I can recall seeing just that - regular cars on the wrong side of the street to deliver to mailboxes.

Federal regulations already specify a height above road surface range for rural mail boxes. There are several methods already in use, at least in my neighborhood, for delivery of mail to roadside mail boxes that do not require driving the on the wrong side of the road. 1) Right hand drive vehicles, usually imported but also available custom order, 2) break and accelerator sideways extenders (similar to what is used in driver ed vehicles, 3) drivers with very long arms, or 4) drivers with very long arms and very long legs.