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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:05:48 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Oh, I also remember when there was a mail drop box on just about every
> other street corner. Nowadays they are very few and far between.
> Nowadays I have to go to the post office to mail a letter. The nearest
> post office for me is twelve miles away, and no mail-drop boxes along
> the way.
There have been too many cases of mail-drop boxes being vandalised, so
the postal authorities have removed most of them. Most of those left are
in areas where they are under surveilance for much of the day.
The same with public phones, which nowadays are found only in shopping
malls.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
"Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952.
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/ \ From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
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