Every month I utilized the mail boxes that were located at either the Tradewinds Hotel, ANZ bank in Tafuna or Shoe Tree in Nuuuli. I noticed there was also another one at the Haleck’s compound in Pavaiai.

It was a convenience and I appreciated the Post Office for installing these boxes so that one who lives and works in the central area could simply stop at any of these locations and drop off mail.

Today I stopped at Tradewinds only to find it was removed. I proceeded to ANZ and that too, was removed. My next stop of course was Shoe Tree and guess what?? Gone!!

I called our local Post Office and asked where all the boxes vanished to. The response was that the head office in Honolulu thought they weren’t being utilized enough and thought it best to have them all removed.

“All of them?” I asked. “All of them.” was the response.

I’ll admit, four mailboxes that I know of well, might have been a bit too much for the central area. Removing 2 or 3 of them I could understand. But all of them? Not leaving one measly mail box for the central area?

Did not one employee of our local Post Office consider that maybe they should leave at least one little box in this populated area of residents and business? It’s no secret that the traffic in town is mostly caused from the poor parking area at the Post Office.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who dreads the daunting task of checking the mail just for that reason. But I’m getting off track now— that’s a whole different can of worms.

Could you just bring back one box ?? Just 1??

“Going postal”