By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
APRIL 22, 2022 | Post office patrons living in Peachtree Corners or Norcross may have been frustrated to see the post office’s drop-off blue boxes for mailed taped shut so that you can’t deposit mail any more.
So far we have heard of no other Gwinnett postal locations taking this route.
We’ve noticed it for about two months, and finally got one postal employee to tell us more about it.
Seems that thieves have been stealing mail out of the boxes to such an extent that the postal officials felt they had to tape over the opening so people could not drop mail into the boxes. If you want to mail a letter at these two city locations, you now have to get out of your car and go into these two post offices to deposit your mail inside the building.
No longer can you slip your mail into the slots of the blue box from your car. Yes, it is frustrating and inefficient.
Yet the postal officials take the position that they would rather inconvenience you than see your mail get violated, and even lost.
We made numerous efforts over the last two weeks to get an official from the post office to talk on record about this subject, to no avail. It is near impossible to get anyone from the post office on the phone, much less get them to talk for the record.
It grieved a lot of Atlanta Braves fans when the team could not come to terms with a key player of their recent world’s championship team, first baseman Freddie Freeman. The negotiations for re-signing Freeman may have dealt more than anything else with the total Braves player payroll and what Freeman thought he should be worth. For some reason, the negotiations collapsed, and free agent Freeman signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
That one action just might deliver the National League pennant to the Dodgers this year, and may have cost the Braves a second consecutive title.
So it was fitting, in a way, for the Dodgers to win a game the other night, with Freeman delivering a home run for his new team. Having Freeman in a Dodger uniform will be a story to itself whenever the Braves and Dodgers meet this year. Freeman is a skilled batsman, and may be the Braves’ nemesis this season….and maybe for more than one season.
Yep, we’re still working on identifying the oldest businesses in each of the cities of Gwinnett, and the oldest in the county. Digging out history is slow sailing. Several people have responded with bits and pieces. Know that we are working on determining these oldest businesses. Eventually this history will see the light of the day.
Passports: Good to see that the Gwinnett County Clerk of Court’s office stepping up and now accepting applications for U.S. passports. While passports have customarily been a service of the U.S. Post Office, it’s good to see an alternative place to submit an application. Thank you, Clerk of Court Tiana Garner, for making passport applications available at your office in Lawrenceville.
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