Dear overpaid bureaucrat: Keep away from Woodgate Post Office
Devastating news here in Woodgate. The postal feds, in all their infinite wisdom, want to close our post office.
Most of us received this notice last week, however, several local folks were blatantly left off the list and received no notification whatsoever.
The closing of this particular post office will indeed cause incredible hardship for many, many residents here; year-rounders as well as the tons of seasonal folks that blanket this area for months and months.
We need you Mart Allen. Your postal crusade was nothing short of incredible. Your diligence was remarkable and I admire the heck out of you, just so ya know.
Because we reside right on Route 28, we choose not to have a high maintenance, high profile rural box at the end of our driveway.
We are business owners in this town and visit our post office almost daily for mail pickups and sendouts, stamp purchasing, money orders, etc.
Traveling to Forestport is simply not an option with gas prices soaring and time limitations.
In addition to the personal cost we will be faced with comes the very disturbing fact that we will have to change our addresses—our zip code will no longer exist.
THEY WANT TO STEAL OUR IDENTITY!!! Aw c’mon guys, do you really want to take Woodgate off the map?
Now what? Will we have to change Woodgate Storage to Forestport Storage? Big bucks there. How about our fire department? What shall we call that now?
And on a more personal note, who will I be? Jan from Woodgate will cease to exist.
Yup, Identity Crisis hovers in our future, and someone will be held responsible for the mental anguish that would accompany this decision.
This little post office is extremely busy during the summer months—one can barely get near the place.
There’s absolutely no way to convince us that it’s monetarily unfeasible to keep this office open.
Why not simply eliminate the no-doubt-grossly-over-compensated federal employee who started this mess?
I’ll just bet that his annual salary and benefit package could keep us well funded for many years to come.
We will be pleased to meet with this fella on Thursday afternoon, right here at our post office, between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m.
I’m certain there will be an impressive turnout in support of our Woodgate Post Office.
I say Backhoes Unite. Bring out the heavy stuff my friends—we’re in for a fight, and a noble one it will be.
Let’s keep our town from being swallowed up by The Big Guys, cuz who really likes them anyway?
Certainly not this gal, Jan from Wherever.
