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The two buildings in town that get repeatedly damaged by older folks ramming their Buicks into the storefront are the post office and the pharmacy. If the PO doesn't get the front end demolished at least every other year, it's a shocker. They probably keep a big roll of that yellow caution tape behind the front counter.

I recently left the subdivision life and moved 15 miles out from the nearest town. I'm at the end of the blacktop and utility services stop at my place. Mail service seems a bit spottier than it was in town, but my mail carrier is nice. Changed a tire for her last week.

Rural route 3, closest town 5 miles population of around 1200. There is where you will find a cup of coffee at the drug store for 10 cents, haircut at Barber shop $10. As Jpro referenced, some old folks went to pay their bill at the State Farm office the other day (don’t trust the mail) drove right thru the front door. Police asked the old man driver if he had any medical conditions, he said “hell I don’t know” turned to his wife “do I have any medical conditions?”

we have 2 addresses P.O. Box about 30 miles away, P.O. at a cross road of 2 county Farm to market rd's, no other services, or our mail box on the county farm to market rd. and our front gate, 6 miles from my house To our front gate , service is better at P.O.. The white truck and the brown truck work better than the USPS. Rio7

I still ain't tellin'

renegades mailman must drive up on the sidewalk to deliver to them fancy new boxes.

RIO7, I'm jealous. I'd be really jealous if you were in MT and not TX. Maybe even the AZ mountains.

Only 170,000 or so here. 40" walk to the mailbox.

My great aunt, Grannies sister plowed her ford contour thru the front of the Tobaco Shack one morning in our small town.

Jonesin’ for some Virginia slims.

Got confused and put in drive instead of reverse....

Smoked the tired before they got her stopped.......

small town livin' there smarquez

Aint no sidewalks.
Khan/ wife mowed saturday.
Looks good huh????
I geuss to people that see things that way...
Me..... IDGAF....
Seems ta be a once a week thing for her now.
You go girl.....



My prairie is growing out back again like it should....
LOL!!!

P.O. Box 5, Nipomo, Ca. Until 2010.

Is that the road next to the boxes? Looks to be about 8 feet wide only. Looks like a sidewalk to me.

Khan wife is doing a bang up job there.

Prairies lives matter.

Wabi,

I live outside of town.

We have a mailbox in town still, but the walk, or the drive, is always good for a chat or two with those we don't see too often, and it keeps us up to snuff on the gossip


View from the east side, the two buildings you see to the left in the distance are the Fire Station (volunteers).

I think we get some mighty pretty sunsets here.



Lynn

Lynn,

good to see you around still.

And yes, a lovely country sunset.

20ft
Yep.
And
Yep.


LOL!!!

I’m a mile from a small town that still has a post office that’s open two hours a day. But, I don’t get my mail there. I live on the rural route that I served on as mail carrier for 31 years. I had the best of service, though some of the other people on the route might argue that.......lol. As the older carriers retire, and the hiring practices of USPS become more “diversified” and less stringent, the service becomes worse.

Pretty Lynn, that corn looks lush, and green. Now I'll have to find some sunsets.

A few years back I was working a refuel outage at brown's ferry, and staying near Athens Alabama. This pre-dated depositing checks with your cell phone, and I had no bank branch near enough to make deposits. Every week I'd make my way to the post office and send the check home to my wife.

One day, I'm in line at the P.O. when I ran across a friend that I worked with occasionally. Hadn't seen him for a couple of years and we caught up while we waited in line. I got to the counter and paid for a posted envelope, then we made our way to the rear counter where I stuffed the check in the envelope and (I thought) addressed it to my wife at home.

Several days went by and she asked me on the phone if I was sure I sent the check. Yeah, I was sure. Told her it'd be there in a couple of days or so.
A week after I sent it, I called the P.O. to report that my mail hadn't arrived at home.
On the advice of the postal guy I advised the company I worked for that the check was lost, and a few days later they gave me a new check.

A few weeks later that job ended, and I went to a new job in Wisconsin for a month.That job lasted 4 weeks and I headed for home. My 2nd or 3rd day at home I got a large envelope from the Postal Service.
Inside that envelope was the envelope that I'd bought and sent from Athens Alabama, nearly 3 months before. The envelope I sent had just my wife's first name on it. Beside that there was a red stamp of a finger pointing at my wife's name and the words "Insufficient Address". The envelope had been opened, and they had checked the contents for an address to send it to. The check was in the envelope I'd bought.

All this to say that if there's any way possible, they'll get it to you. Until 4 years ago, my last living aunt addressed my mail like this;

My name
Rural route
Dixon Il.

Always arrived promptly...

75 yard walk to the mailbox, rural route

Wabi,

Another sunset picture for you, it was taken a little later in the evening than the one above, a little deeper into the field, and a little higher in the sky

Lynn

Wow!

Just like my location say, in the town that Del Shanon made famous.