Comments on: The End of the Small Town Post Office http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/24/the-end-of-the-small-town-post-office/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Decatur Metro http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/24/the-end-of-the-small-town-post-office/#comment-16542 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:34:12 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-16542 The Decatur PO isn’t going anywhere. I’m pretty sure that it’s where everyone west of Atlanta and east of Athens needs to come to pick up a package!

Behind Beacon Hill and the Candler Hotel, probably my biggest “Oh my!” moment when researching Decatur history was when I discovered that our current post office was build on the spot of Ponce de Leon Elementary, which looked a lot like Clairemont Elementary.

Oh well…

]]> By: George http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/24/the-end-of-the-small-town-post-office/#comment-16524 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:06:59 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-16524 Empty Post Offices make great locations for new rural Starbucks. It’s a win-win. ;-)

]]> By: Baron Chandler http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/24/the-end-of-the-small-town-post-office/#comment-16522 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:47:34 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-16522 It’s funny, I was just thinking how I love seeing the postman delivering mail door-to-door on Clairemont instead of just driving up in the little jeeplet and shoving mail into a box. Something simple, something small to look forward to every day… Honestly, I would not mind getting rid of street mailboxes entirely and just go to the post office.

]]> By: Ann http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/24/the-end-of-the-small-town-post-office/#comment-16521 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:43:47 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-16521 Avondale is a wonderful PO. Russel knows many customers by name, has a smile and laugh for everyone and has even helped me unload boxes from my car at holiday time. I hope it stays open!

]]> By: Freakonomic http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/08/24/the-end-of-the-small-town-post-office/#comment-16520 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:38:01 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-16520 The post office is great. It’s often looked at as the bastion of government inefficiency, but I think it’s under appreciated. You can scribble something on a piece of paper and it shows up there in two days. The problem is just that the PO should have been charging more for a stamp for the last 50 years. We might be one of the cheapest rates with one of the biggest land masses. It might be a dollar to mail something in the UK and it’s tiny. From Atlanta to California for forty something cents is just too cheap.

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