Meadow Plaza Mailbox Is a Victim of Post Office’s Economic Woes
Property owner Jay Heitman asked the post office to maintain the asphalt around the collection box in Meadow Plaza—or if not, to remove the box entirely.
When the U.S. Postal Service took out the mail collection box in the Meadow Plaza shopping center this summer, it was just one casualty of the agency’s billions of dollars in losses. But for Northbrook’s downtown residents and regular Meadow Plaza shoppers, the loss of the collection box—located in the parking lot for easy drive-up access—had much larger reverberations. In a column published Tuesday, Northbrook Star writer Karie Angell Luc reported that she’d heard from several readers who lamented the disappearance of the box, which the postal service removed in August. Earlier: Future Of Northbrook's Post Offices Looks Secure--For Now “It is so difficult to find a parking spot to drop mail at the in-town post office,” one reader wrote …
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Lee
6:50 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012
There is a paucity of mailboxes in Northbrook. There is one by Dominick's and across Sanders at the small strip mall. However, there isn't one single box unti you get to Pheasant Creek. There is nothing south of that, at least until Willow until you get to Shermer. There is a post office/box at the Sunset Mall and one in front of Village Hall. When I mentioned this at the post office the response… more ›