Post Offices Close Early Due to Winter Storm Jonas

Post Offices Close Early Due to Winter Storm Jonas

January 22, 2016

Customers Asked to Deposit Mail before Noon

BALTIMORE, MD – Weather conditions may make it impossible to collect mail later in the day. The following updates have been provided regarding current mail service as the Maryland area braces for this season’s most severe winter storm:

Post Offices Close Early Due to Winter Storm Jonas January 22, 2016 http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2016/01/post-offices-close-early-due-to-winter.html

MAILBOX COLLECTIONS:  Collections of mail from the familiar blue collection boxes, residences, and businesses will be completed by noon.

POST OFFICES: All Post Offices in the Baltimore District that’s comprised of  ZIP Codes beginning with 215 and 217 will be closing at 2 pm. ZIP Codes starting with 210, 211, 212, 216, 218 and 219 will close at 3 p.m. This includes all facilities, including bulk mail acceptance units.

The Postal Service asks that steps and walkways be cleared of snow and ice after the storm so that letter carriers may resume delivery safely and efficiently on Monday. Icy areas should also be salted or sanded.

Curbside mailboxes should be shoveled out enough so that carriers can deliver or collect mail without having to leave or back up their vehicles.  The area near the mailbox should be cleared in a half-moon shape to give the carrier and passing drivers full visibility. 

Letter carriers are instructed to hold mail to addresses where ice and snow are not cleared but they often risk injury trying to provide the best service they can to the customers they serve. Please show them your appreciation by ensuring they are safe when delivering your mail.

If you have any questions regarding mail delivery, you can contact the Postal Service Customer Care Center at 1-800-ASK-USPS (800-275-8777) or visit www.usps.com, at special USPS Service Alerts section found at http://about.usps.com/news/service-alerts/welcome.htm.

You will be provided specific information regarding delivery and retail services in the affected area.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products, and services to fund its operations.

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Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age - NYTimes.com

Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age - NYTimes.com: 

Singapore’s Postal Service Reinvents Itself for the Digital Age

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSONMAY 18, 2015

"SINGAPORE — http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/business/international/singpost-reinvents-for-digital-age-of-ecommerce.html?emc=edit_th_20150519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45685287&_r=0

When a German lingerie brand wanted to sell bras online in Malaysia, it turned to Singapore’s nearly 200-year-old national postal service.

Singapore Post built a website, developed a marketing strategy and now delivers packages for the company, Triumph International. 

The customer service team even answers questions about sizing. 

 As postage stamps give way to keyboard clicks, SingPost is redefining the role of the letter carrier, by creating a one-stop shop for retailers’ e-commerce needs in Asia.

In South Korea, SingPost is helping to sell Levi’s jeans. In Singapore, it is stocking Toshiba laptops. In Malaysia, it is delivering Adidas sneakers. 


 With traditional mail services in decline, post offices around the world are scrambling to reinvent themselves for the digital age.

“Sitting on that burning platform, we looked around and said, ‘Where could we develop?’” said Wolfgang Baier, the chief executive of SingPost.

Continue reading the main story  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/business/international/singpost-reinvents-for-digital-age-of-ecommerce.html?emc=edit_th_20150519&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45685287&_r=0

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Alibaba to Buy Stake in Singaporean Postal System MAY 28, 2014 

Japan Post is buying the largest private package and freight delivery company in Australia, Toll Holdings, in a bid to create a rival to UPS and FedEx. The United States Postal Service, which lost $5.5 billion last year, is providing Sunday deliveries for Amazon. Australia Post is working with the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba to help local businesses connect with consumers in China."

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Letters to Santa: Why charity groups fought to have kid’s letters end up in the dead letter office.

Letters to Santa: Why charity groups fought to have kid’s letters end up in the dead letter office....

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Letters to Santa: Why charity groups fought to have kid’s letters end up in the dead letter office.: "A century ago, charities fought to have children’s wish lists sent to the dead letter office. They lost.  By Alex Palmer" 

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2014/12/letters_to_santa_why_charity_groups_fought_to_have_kid_s_letters_end_up.html

What could be more innocent than a letter to Santa? A child jotting down her heart’s desires in pencil or crayon and dropping it in the mailbox, naively hoping the wish will be granted by Christmas morning: It’s a tradition that goes back at least to the mid-1800s, and it is a reminder of the holiday’s more idyllic past.

These days, such letters are viewed as an opportunity to help the less fortunate. In many cities across the U.S., the Postal Service mak
es available Santa letters to groups or individuals who want to fulfill the wishes enclosed within. It’s a small gesture, multiplied hundreds of thousands of times a year, that brings joy to both the giver and the recipient. What harm could come from that?

Oh, just teaching kids to beg, cheat, and lie—at least, that was the conventional wisdom of charity groups in the early 1900s. As such, the Post Office Department, now known as the U.S. Postal Service, found itself in the middle of a wild confrontation between a press and public that never failed to find delight in a note opening with “Dear Santy,” and groups that claimed Santa letters were the product of con artists in training.

“The Post Office Department does not believe in Santa Claus,” lamented the New York Times in a 1906 article about the government policy that undeliverable mail—including letters addressed to a certain chubby, sleigh-riding fellow—be sent to the dead letter office and destroyed. ... 

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2014/12/letters_to_santa_why_charity_groups_fought_to_have_kid_s_letters_end_up.html

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Eagle Archives: Standard, aka junk, mail goes back to 19th century http://tinyurl.com/oye7pyo

Eagle Archives: Standard, aka junk, mail goes back to 19th century http://tinyurl.com/oye7pyo

By Kevin E. Dayhoff, May 23, 2013 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/neighborhoods/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0519-20130519,0,823668.story

The nation's first countywide free rural postal delivery service got off to a shaky and contested start Dec. 20, 1896, in Carroll County.

According to multiple media accounts, including the Baltimore Sun, "One of the first pick-ups postal clerk Edwin Shriver had on the inaugural day of Carroll County's Rural Free Delivery service was a greased pig…"

"I'm sure he (the customer) did it as a joke," said Shriver. "But I slapped a 42-cent stamp on its rump and delivered it. That pig squealed the whole way."

A little over three years later, Charles Emory Smith, the 39th postmaster general of the United States and a journalist by trade, visited Westminster on April 30, 1900.

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If Smith were to come back today, he would find the current state of affairs of the Postal Service look more like that haze produced by the forest fire.

These days, the future beautiful vista at the post office is less than clear, if my last visit there is any indication.

After I opened my box, I let out a squeal much like that of that greased pig in December of 1896. I quickly realized that I had once again fallen prey to the modern scourge upon the postal system that has significantly impacted our lives today, junk mail, or as it is politely referred to by the postal system, "standard mail."

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Don't complain about the flood of unsolicited mail. "The Postal Service is hoping to deliver even more," according to an article in the New York Times last September.

"Faced with multibillion-dollar losses and significant declines in first-class mail, the post office is cutting deals with businesses and direct mail marketers to increase the number of sales pitches they send by standard mail…"

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Kevin Dayhoff - The Tentacle: Fighting the “Stuff Monster”

The Dayhoff Paper Reduction Act of June 20, 2012, Fighting the “Stuff Monster” http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5178

Fighting the “Stuff Monster” http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5178

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Kevin E. Dayhoff June 20, 2012 

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There comes a time in a person’s life when one needs to get a fresh supply of trash bags, buy a new heavy-duty paper shredder, back the pick-up truck to the basement door, get out the large party-size coffee maker, and clear the clutter.

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For me, periodically fighting the “Stuff Monster” has been a survival tool – or I would have been the tragic-lead character in a serial reality horror show on hoarding a long time ago.

Yet, in my personal journey of a life-long struggle with the “Stuff Monster,” the deck has always been stacked against me.

For, you see, my situation has been exacerbated by the fact that I have been self-employed all my life. Many colleagues have been able to fight the “Stuff Monster” much more easily because all the filing cabinets full of papers and pallets of boxes in records storage, has been the responsibility of their respective employers.

Well, with me – since the late 1960s – I’ve been my own employer and keeping records, documents and stuff has always been my responsibility.

And, of course, for the last 35 or so years, in addition to art and farming, I have continuously served on any number of local, county or state boards, committees or commissions – and for many years, as an elected official – all of which was accompanied by my bringing home papers, documents and records by the wheelbarrow load.

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I am trying to go as paperless as possible.

My paperless initiative is in part, because technology has advanced to the point that I can now handle many office and administrative functions more efficiently - without paper.

However, my reasons for going as paperless as possible are in part, as a matter of practicality. Above and beyond the fact that we travel a lot and are simply not at home to get hardcopy paper-mail at our post office box; at my advanced age, handling mountains of paper day-in and day-out has not gotten any easier.

Curiously, after almost 40-years of office administration, if you hand me a piece of paper, in several hours, I have no clue as to where it is. However, I always seem to be able to find electronic paperwork… Caroline will tell you that I have come to like reading online so much that I scan-in letters and writing-newspaper-research materials just so that I can read it on the computer…

Moreover, a large part of my decision to go paperless is a product of my environmental activism, which in part springs forth from faith beliefs…

Whatever - - I am a geek and although a few electrons may be inconvenienced; paperless is far more efficient…

That said, LOL – the initiative sure has had some interesting moments – and a few profound failures; however, it has been for the most part, quite successful…

Fighting the “Stuff Monster”

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And actually this has happened to me several times in the past year. 


Much of - most of what you see in this picture is junk mail, i.e. unsolicited and unwanted marketing and sales fliers and mailers - mostly from the continuing education management industry involved in seminars, conferences, publishing, distance education and digital education products for health care professionals… 


It’s nuts…


SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012

Welcome home. LOL

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Westminster Maryland Online: Reisterstown Patch - Marc Shapiro: Will Glyndon Ma...

Westminster Maryland Online: Reisterstown Patch - Marc Shapiro: Will Glyndon Ma...: Will Glyndon Mail Service End in Three Weeks? "The neighborhood has been in an enormous state of panic," says a community leader. Re...

Will Glyndon Mail Service End in Three Weeks?

"The neighborhood has been in an enormous state of panic," says a community leader. Residents are set to meet with U.S. Postal Service officials tonight.

January 9, 2011 By Marc Shapiro

http://reisterstown.patch.com/articles/future-of-mail-in-glyndon-uncertain

The future of mail service for many Glyndon residents is uncertain with general mail delivery to the town’s post office due to stop Jan. 30. Most Glyndon residents receive their mail at the post office rather than through home delivery.

“The neighborhood has been in an enormous state of panic as to what is going to happen,” said Kathy Ziese, president of Historic Glyndon, Inc.

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Read more: http://reisterstown.patch.com/articles/future-of-mail-in-glyndon-uncertain

Update - See also: Glyndon General Mail Delivery To Stay Put

A U.S. Postal Service employee told Glyndon residents that general delivery service at the town's post office would not stop, but residents spoke of a myriad of problems with mail service. By Marc Shapiro http://reisterstown.patch.com/articles/glyndon-general-mail-delivery-to-stay-put#c

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