To the editor:

I, too, would like to send a letter to the post office.

Unlike our city commissioners, however, I do have a problem with our post office fleeing its current location to make way for yet more downtown development.

According to the Aug. 29 article, commissioners are “fine with the Postal Service turning over its downtown operations to a contractor, as long as the new space had P.O. boxes and all the other amenities.” What are these other amenities? Would they include a drive-through drop-off (which our family uses regularly) for mail? A passport office?

The post office property is considered prime for development. It is also prime for our post office. The distribution center, with its sorting and stacking, is vital to this city’s mail service, not an embarrassment to be hidden away on the outskirts of town.

We don’t need just another “grocery store post office,” where mail is picked up only once at the end of a busy day; where they may or may not be stocked with the stamps you and I need; where postal business is squeezed in between ringing up a lottery ticket, handling a grocery return and answering the phone; where the clerk may or may not label that priority package when he is finished with that long line of customers.

It’s reassuring to know the library board eagerly endorsed that site. Of course they did. But we already have a downtown library. Let’s hang on to our downtown post office, too.

Yes, I’d like to send a letter to the post office. In fact, I often do!

Sarah Ashley Posch,

Lawrence