Things that happen in your small town that you wonder if it happens everywhere?

[Alan W.]

Having a circle drive helps a lot for deliveries.
Get mail 6 days a week and packages brought to the door. Garbage pickup is even at the house. Never have to take a can or bags to the road.
No stoplights just a few stop signs. Most people wave at each other in passing even if they dont know ya.

 

[mikester]

Small town post office for me. 25 years ago you could put my name on an envelope with just the rural route number on it and I'd get my mail. Then they switched to a post office box system so now mail has to have my PO BOX of the first line of my address or else the PO will stamp the letter "Unknown - Return To Sender"

The problem now is government agencies and banks REFUSE to put my PO BOX as my first line because they say I HAVE TO HAVE A PHYSICAL STREET ADDRESS as the first line.

Example: I can't put a PO BOX on my drivers license on the first line, Ministry of Transport puts it as the second line after my street address. Same with my tax office, banks, credit card statements.

The postal nazis then stamp these as Unknown and it's a crap shoot if I ever get my important mail. The postal nazis get all indignant with me if I ask them NOT to RTS my drivers license renewals, government tax forms, credit card bill etc. because it's my fault that other government agencies won't conform to new post office requirements.

 

[Jstpssng]

Small town post office for me. 25 years ago you could put my name on an envelope with just the rural route number on it and I'd get my mail. Then they switched to a post office box system so now mail has to have my PO BOX of the first line of my address or else the PO will stamp the letter "Unknown - Return To Sender"

The problem now is government agencies and banks REFUSE to put my PO BOX as my first line because they say I HAVE TO HAVE A PHYSICAL STREET ADDRESS as the first line.

Example: I can't put a PO BOX on my drivers license on the first line, Ministry of Transport puts it as the second line after my street address. Same with my tax office, banks, credit card statements.

The postal nazis then stamp these as Unknown and it's a crap shoot if I ever get my important mail. The postal nazis get all indignant with me if I ask them NOT to RTS my drivers license renewals, government tax forms, credit card bill etc. because it's my fault that other government agencies won't conform to new post office requirements.

I've never had that problem. I have a couple of places which put my street address yet I still seem to get it. I HAVE been turned down for a credit card by my local bank because their data base from the Post Office doesn't "Recognize my street." No shtick, I have a PO Box. More recently, I tried to make a Christmas donation to the Salvation Army but they don't seem to recognize PO Boxes. I then sent an email to the address listed for the local chapter, which came back "undeliverable." I had to drive 55 miles and put the donation into a kettle, but whatever works.

What I find frustrating is that every time I order something I have to fill out all of my information twice... once for billing address, the other my street address. There is only one line different. There is only one company I have ever dealt with which allows me to fill in the street, without doing everything else again.

 

[stuckmotor]

Small town post office for me. 25 years ago you could put my name on an envelope with just the rural route number on it and I'd get my mail. Then they switched to a post office box system so now mail has to have my PO BOX of the first line of my address or else the PO will stamp the letter "Unknown - Return To Sender"

The problem now is government agencies and banks REFUSE to put my PO BOX as my first line because they say I HAVE TO HAVE A PHYSICAL STREET ADDRESS as the first line.

Example: I can't put a PO BOX on my drivers license on the first line, Ministry of Transport puts it as the second line after my street address. Same with my tax office, banks, credit card statements.

The postal nazis then stamp these as Unknown and it's a crap shoot if I ever get my important mail. The postal nazis get all indignant with me if I ask them NOT to RTS my drivers license renewals, government tax forms, credit card bill etc. because it's my fault that other government agencies won't conform to new post office requirements.

I think I'd write the Postmaster General of the United States.

 

[lman]

I think I'd write the Postmaster General of the United States.

What good would that do? He lives in Canada. Around here we are required to use our 911 address. The fire truck can't find you in a box.

 

[Gator6x4]

Don’t blame the Post Office or Businesses about using a PO Box as an acceptable address. Crooks would move into town, get a P.O. Box number. Open a 100 dollar checking account, order checks. Wait the week for the checks and a week later leave town for another town several thousand dollars richer.

Another name, another town, another P.O. Box. Same fraudulent scheme.

Louis Dejoy the Postmaster General is closing or restricting mail all across the US. Thief’s have struck rural mail boxes so many times people are having mail delivered to P.O. Boxes now. The problem with that is there are only so many P.O. Boxes in a Post Office.

 

[stuckmotor]

I think I'd write the Postmaster General of the United States.

Better change that to the head of postal operations in Canada whatever he or she is called. That person might be able to help.

 

[Cougsfan]

In the town I was growing up we had an unusual problem before the put the bypass freeway in. It was near the Washington State Coast and the main road to the coast ran right through the middle of town. It was a small town of 2,500, and we didn't even have a stop light. On summer Sundays, starting about noon, lasting into the night, if you wanted to drive from the North side of the town to the South side, having two people was mandatory. The beach traffic of people returning to the Seattle area was absolutely non stop. Fortunately it was slow moving. One person would have to walk out in to the traffic to stop it so the other person could drive through. It was the joke of the town, but not very funny some times.

Today I live on the other side of the State, about 15 miles away from Washington State University which is a big school in a small town. After a football game, or on the day the semester is over and students are leaving, we have the same problem. Getting onto the main highway from our house is virtually impossible. The difference is it is fast moving traffic and the two person method would be dangerous.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

What good would that do? He lives in Canada. Around here we are required to use our 911 address. The fire truck can't find you in a box.

One of the Forest Service compounds I take care of is in the middle of a wilderness. I got told I had to get a street address for it. Called the County who issues addresses.

She usually looks on the map, and assigns addresses by miles up the road, to the 100th of a mile, odd on the left, even on the right.

The compound is about forty miles from the nearest road, and that “road” is a spur to a campground on the wilderness boundary.

I explained how river miles, measure up from the mouth of the stream. And, the compound, now has an address, based on the river miles.

Not sure how it would help, a first responder. Because the only first response would be the Forest Service, or Life Flight. And they would navigate by lat & long.

 

[Gator6x4]

One of the Forest Service compounds I take care of is in the middle of a wilderness. I got told I had to get a street address for it. Called the County who issues addresses.

She usually looks on the map, and assigns addresses by miles up the road, to the 100th of a mile, odd on the left, even on the right.

The compound is about forty miles from the nearest road, and that “road” is a spur to a campground on the wilderness boundary.

I explained how river miles, measure up from the mouth of the stream. And, the compound, now has an address, based on the river miles.

Not sure how it would help, a first responder. Because the only first response would be the Forest Service, or Life Flight. And they would navigate by lat & long.

Surprised the Forest Service did not have an address for the location. If the property is that isolated how do you or anyone else get to it? 40 miles without a road is about as isolated as you can get. I call that really living off the grid. Accidents happen every day. Health problems happened every day. A person would have to be a complete idiot to go to a location 40 miles from anywhere without a road and the only access being by helicopter.

How does the Forest Service get supplies in and out. How did they get supplies in to build buildings with?