> Seems kind of a short distance to me, for a rural mail carrier to no longer go to. Other box stops that are grandfathered in on the route are easily a mile or two between stops. So, there's going to be many people that face this same thing in the future, is what I'm thinking. Whenever these houses are vacant for awhile in between residents.
This isn't happening just with rural addresses. We had a rental house in Pontiac that was vacant for several months while I remodeled the bathroom. We were notified by USPS that we would have to move the mailbox from the front door to the sidewalk, a distance of about 50 feet. The house next door still has its mailbox at the door, so it doesn't save the postman very many steps; the postman walks across the neighbor's grass either way.
I can understand the rationale for doing this: The less distance the postman has to travel, the more efficient the delivery. But there are plenty of specific instances where it doesn't make a lot of sense.
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