The postmaster of the local post office has to put in a maintenance request down in the central office in Minneapolis. The relay boxes found around Alexandria have been out of commission for quite some time, but the process of having them removed isn’t an easy one. By the time a carrier reached one of the boxes, their buggies would be out of mail and ready to restock. As anyone can imagine, there’s a certain limit that those carts can physically tote, and that limit wasn’t near sufficient enough to cover an entire route.īecause of this, clerks would drive to the relay boxes and stuff them full of mail for the next section of the route. They appear to be sealed off and no longer welcoming any outgoing mail from the areas where they reside.Īfter speaking with members of the post office in Alexandria, it was discovered that these are not abandoned mailboxes, but relay boxes that were never meant for outgoing mail.īack in the day before mail carriers went mobile, the mail routes were done by foot with little carts they would pull behind them on wheels. Sprinkled throughout the neighborhoods, old, green USPS mailboxes can be found. If you’re taking walks or driving around the residential parts of Alexandria, you may have wandered upon a lonely looking mailbox on the street corners.
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