Results tagged “postoffice”

This time there is no holding back for the City of Newcastle, as they (again) petition the United States Postal Service to get their very own zip code. Since the creation of Newcastle in 1994, homeowners and businesses had to identify themselves with one of Renton's two zip codes (98056 and 98059). After 15 years of confusion, Newcastle wants to hear the zip code rants to support their petition for postal independence. They hope this will prevent further zip code headaches that include the loss of sales tax dollars based off of zip codes and the directional hot mess where most addresses in Newcastle are considered an "unknown location" by most computers and even delivery drivers.

Some Montlake residents had fetch their mail from the Union Street post office early this week because of a dog with mail issues. Turns out, the USPS stopped delivering the mail to the entire block due one family's dog on the loose. The carrier, who has warned the family about their dog's behavior several times over the past two years--and fined them--finally went postal nuclear by alerting the postmaster, who promptly put the whole block on “Dog Hold.” It's a draconian response to the timeless battle between dogs and mailmen--is the assumption that the mail-less neighbors will grab the pitchforks and torches and rush over to ensure compliance? We're not sure, but since no one on the block knew why their mail had stopped coming, we think we see a flaw in this strategy.

What you can't do today: go to the bank, buy hard liquor, or use the post office. What you can do today: march in a parade downtown, volunteer a few of your hours for the betterment of all humanity, and take a minute to remember what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement were all about. This morning, we re-read Dr. King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail and were inspired again by his words. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly," he wrote. We're going to let those words fuel our actions today. Are you and yours doing anything in particular to recognize the holiday?

The other day we popped into the Broadway post office looking for some stamps. But the stamp vending machine was gone, so we had to stand in a 12-person line to buy $1-ish of stamps. We hear that--in addition to uprooting friendly neighborhood mailboxes--the USPS is saving money by removing stamp vending machines from post offices across Washington. You can buy stamps at USPS.com, and they will mail them to you. Sometimes we hate this stupid new online world. We can still get stamps on a whim at Wells Fargo ATMs--maybe they'll move into delivering mail too. God knows the USPS hasn't impressed us there, either.

Generally after the warm, fuzzy glow of our New Year's hangover wears off, Seattlest is left staring into the abyss of January without much to cling to, except our quickly fading memories of the resolutions we made and the knowledge that tax season is fast approaching.

Rifling through the remains of the house's cookbook library (which was amassed sometime in the 50's when it was used as the high school's home ec facility), we came across a promotional brochure from the Vermont Maple Promotion Board. It gave information about maple trees and sugar houses (it takes 35 gallons of sap to make just one gallon of delicious Vermont maple syrup!) and a few maple-laden recipes, a surprising number of which actually sounded good.

Yeah, so how's that mail merge going, anyway? Gonna make it to the post office in time? Might wanna leave early. Could be a big line.

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend...

The state DOT today said that one of the two choices on the March special "what to do with the viaduct" election isn't safe, effectively rendering the election pointless.

Seattle's proposal for a reduced, four-lane Alaskan Way tunnel should be dropped from further consideration, because of "serious operational and safety problems found during our technical review," the State Department of Transportation said in a letter released this morning.

Continue reading "State: Tunnel Vote Is Pointless"

Last month we were trying to mail a check to San Francisco. First we tried the usual snail-mail way, dropped in a box on East Pike. Three weeks later, no dice. So then we tried Priority Mail, and handed it to the postal truck driver ourselves. 2-3 days later, nothing. We called USPS. They said, "Oh wow, we'll look into that." A week went by. We arranged a money transfer by email. We called USPS again. "Yeah, we'll call you," they said. "How did you get this number again?"

-It's been months, hell, a whole season actually, but Mossback has finally come around to Seattlest's way of thinking about the Viaduct.

And now for a whistle-stop tour of some suburban bowling houses...

King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng may be many things: tall, white, bespectacled, and a tiger in the sack but he isn't a fool. He knows when something is amiss, and amiss he feels something is.