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Tweet In a letter delivered to Reinhardt Estates neighborhood residents, Postmaster Russell Jacobson claims that the cluster mailboxes installed without any notice to residents were a “temporary” measure — contradicting statements the Postal Service’s spokesman made in the days after the boxes were installed. In the letter, Jacobson apologizes for “the temporary change of mail delivery [...]
Tweet The cluster boxes are gone! And…they’re back again! But they’re going away soon! Reinhardt Estates neighbors Wednesday and Thursday watched a mystifying series of events as Postal Service workers removed the controversial cluster mailboxes from around the neighborhood only to reinstall them several hours later. Neighborhood resident Liz Paulk said that “as fast as [...]
Tweet Fairway officials met yesterday morning to start formulating a process for addressing the cluster mailboxes controversy that’s upset many Reinhardt homeowners — though the Postal Service appears to be willing to work directly with the homeowners whose dogs initiated the clusterbox installation in the first place. Reinhardt organizer John St. Clair said the Postal Service [...]
Tweet Here’s a guess: the US Postal Service hasn’t heard the end of grumbling from local residents about changes to their mail service. In fact, a fresh wave may be just about to begin. In an apparent departure from assurances Postal Service representatives made during a well-attended community meeting in January, the Postal Service has [...]
Tweet Looks like the Postal Service eventually got the message that the Reinhardt Estates residents impacted by the installation of four cluster mailboxes wanted their voices heard. The city sent a note to residents Thursday informing them that Postmaster Russell Jacobson had agreed to postpone permanent installation of the cluster boxes until the city and [...]
Tweet Fairway officially disapproves. With a unanimous vote Monday, the Fairway City Council passed a resolution opposing the installation of permanent cluster mailboxes “until after the City and its residents are afforded an opportunity to discuss this situation with the USPS to ultimately find a solution that is agreeable to all parties.” The move comes [...]
Tweet Protest from Reinhardt neighborhood residents doesn’t appear to have deterred the United States Postal Service from moving forward with plans to replace door-to-door mail delivery in the area with “cluster boxes” as a response to what the service characterizes as threatening behavior from area dogs. On Friday, the Postal Service installed two new cluster [...]
Tweet Liz Paulk was at home last Friday when she heard several United States Postal Service trucks pull up in front of her house. “I asked what they were doing, and they told me there had been a threatening dog incident on the block and they had a zero-tolerance policy,” she said. She then watched [...]
Tweet Fairway city officials confirmed Tuesday that the United States Postal Service did not contact the city before installing two “cluster mailboxes” on city easements – a move that likely may not infringe on any of the city’s rights, but does violate “common courtesy,” according to former Fairway mayor John St. Clair, Jr. City Administrator Kate [...]
Tweet A reader passed along a copy of the letter Reinhardt neighborhood homeowners received from the United States Post Office regarding the decision to install three group mailboxes for homeowners in the area. The letter, dated May 24, says that a letter carrier was threatened on May 23. The three “neighborhood deliver and collection box [...]
Tweet A group of homeowners in the Reinhardt Estates neighborhood in Fairway recently received a letter from the United States Post Office informing them that, on account of concerns about individual homeowners whose dogs had threatened mailmen, the postal service would no longer be delivering mail to individual homes. Instead, approximately 30 neighbors who live [...]
Tweet The US Postal Service has determined that mail tampering charges made by Kansans for No Income Tax against local state Sen. Terrie Huntington are false and that Huntington did nothing wrong. The allegations surfaced last week when the Topeka Capital Journal published an article in which Kansans for No Income Tax representatives claimed Huntington [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Post office is definitely staying open! Probably! And possibly not in the same location. A community meeting organized by the Postal Service Tuesday seemed to bring good news to those hoping the Post Office at 3710 W 73rd Ter. would be spared the harsh budget cuts the department faces as revenues [...]
Tweet Big thanks to PVPost.com reader Dave G. for passing along word that the Postal Service will be holding a community meeting next week seeking input on the future of the post office on 73rd Terrace in Prairie Village. The branch posted notice of the meeting in its window today: The text of the notice [...]
Tweet The United States Postal Service has informed Mayor Ron Shaffer that it will close the Prairie Village Post Office branch in the near future — but at least one council member says he’ll believe it when he sees it. Shaffer received a letter from the Postal Service last week in which a representative of [...]
Tweet The US Post Office at 3710 W 73rd Ter., a longtime area fixture, may be in store for some changes in the near future. USPS spokesman Rich Watkins confirmed yesterday that the agency is investigating whether to consolidate mail sorting operations throughout the area into the Post Office’s Broodmoor facility, near Metcalf Avenue in [...]
