More recent mailbox removal piece fromJuly 2023:

“As crime rises, so do the threats against our public servants,” said Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy. “The men and women of the Postal Service are walking our nation’s streets every day to fulfil our mission of delivering mail and packages to the American people. Every Postal employee deserves to work in safety and to be free from targeting by criminals seeking to access the public’s mail.”

https://www.wxxv25.com/usps-removes-outside-mailboxes-at-post-office-in-effort-to-reduce-theft1/

I’ve personally never had a problem with using the blue boxes and I use them monthly and there has been zero snnouncement about this.

Incredibly the last time they tried this was exactly 4 years ago in August of 2020:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/politics/usps-removes-letter-collection-boxes-reduces-post-office-operating-hours/index.html

#DejoyNeedsToGo

Follow-up on Mailbox weirdness:

Local USPS Postal Office official states:

“Due to the many complaints we are receiving regarding mail theft, we’re shutting down and will be removing blue mail boxes, people can give mail to their mail carrier or go to their local post-office.”

Me: “There’s no mail box outside this post office…”

PO Official: “Yes, we had to remove that one due to theft also.”

Me: “will this be happening in other neighborhoods and other states.”

PO Person: “Yes.”

Me: “…..”

Voting by mail alert.🚨

USPS: Mailbox weirdness

Tried to mail a letter at 4 different mailboxes within a mile of one anothwr yesterday in Bklyn, NYC.

All 4 had were obstructed behind the slot that made it impossible to insert a letter (or anything). Also their labels w/ PU times were scratched out.

Which is all to say, check your local mailboxes are in working order. You can easily feel the obstruction with your fingers or try a piece of junk mail.

Considering DeJoy’s shenanigans in 2020...

Ted Gioia's Substack:

Expect Heavy Turbulence for the Next 5 Months

"If I were a commercial pilot, I’d tell you to return to your seats and buckle up.

I anticipate extreme turbulence on every front for the remaining five months in 2024. You will see it in politics, business, economics, culture, world affairs, the stock market, and maybe even your own neighborhood."

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/expect-heavy-turbulence-for-the-next?r=2ikux1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

/nosanitize

(Let me know if you can't read this.)

The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice
A new book reminds us what we lost when the counterculture disappeared

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-village

“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas ... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you ... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.”

— Carl Sagan

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut