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Originally Posted by JSH
In my area the USPS is steadily replacing individual mailboxes with community boxes. My house is one street over from that last section of town that was converted - I figure it is only a matter of time.
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They probably cited some kind of safety concern. Either a carrier was assaulted or robbed or there are too many dog bites. Normally they can't get away with changing established deliveries unless the neighborhood agrees to the new. Sometimes parking is so bad the neighborhood itself wants to free up places in front of the box. We still have 1/2 the town here with carriers walking door to door with the mail. That definitely needs to he changed. The central cluster deliveries is definitely faster even with limited parcel lockers which can always be added where needed. We have routes with mostly clustered deliveries with over 1500 stops and routes that are all door to door walking with 1/3 that many stops.