A roving UHub photographer notes the post office on Hanover Street in the North End has a sign on the door saying it would be opening late, at 10:30 a.m., but that they still weren't open when she swung by at 2 p.m.
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Letters, we get letters - just not through the Postal Service.
Three Boston city councilors yesterday called for a hearing to ask local postal officials why mail service has plummeted like a rock, in particular on Mission Hill in particular, but also across the city. Read more.
The Revere Journal reports the Revere City Council is demanding answers from the US Postal Service on why mail delivery in the city sucks, just like in Brighton and Mission Hill.
Thank goodness for e-mail. A business owner on Hillside Street on Mission Hill just sent us the following note about the local mail catastrophe, full of mail piling up in a post office in heap after growing heap: Read more.
Needless to say, the bride to be and her fiancee are not real happy with the USPS, WCVB reports.
Myesha Lewis, from affidavit.
A Dorchester woman and an alleged accomplice from Stoughton were arrested yesterday on charges they robbed letter carriers in Hyde Park and Mattapan, one at knife point, for keys that would let them open streetside mailboxes to rummage for checks that could be altered and deposited. Read more.
Allston's changing face in rendering by Embarc (newest proposed building in baby blue). See it larger.
A developer this week filed detailed plans with the BPDA to replace the condemned former post office on Harvard Avenue in Allston and three neighboring lots with a six-story, 170-unit apartment building. Read more.
A Worcester man faces federal charges for allegedly robbing a letter carrier at gunpoint in January - not for his money, but for the key that can open postal boxes on his route, according to the US Attorney's office in Boston. Read more.
Our mail-in ballots took six days to travel across Watertown mailed 8/11 arrived 8/17. Expect more USPS slow downs as the November election approaches. Trumps plan to Kneecap the Post Office https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/14/obama-trump-postal-service-usps-395270 seems to be having the desired effect.
Check the status of your mail-in ballot here: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/wheredoivotema/track/trackmyballot.aspx
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