'Local' post office help has long way to go

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: October 4, 2002| Author: MIKE NICHOLS | Copyright information

Mike Nichols

'Local' post office help has long way to go

By MIKE NICHOLS of the Journal Sentinel staff

Friday, October 4, 2002

If you live in, say, Port Washington or Cedarburg and have tried recently to mail a letter to your Grandma Edna a couple blocks over, you've probably noticed there are no longer mailboxes at your hometown post office marked "local."

Which means that the invitation to Uncle Lester's birthday party, instead of being sorted at the local ...

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