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ll "I think it's bad anytime you
have to stand in line for an hour
to get one package mailed off,"
he said Monday. "It's a big mess
&pt here sometimes."
I* He said the problem could'
$$ eliminated if the Main branch
offered more services. Dr. Jeff
Miller was more vociferous.
"It doesn't make sense to
fiave all of this parking space
and this huge building and you
can't even mail a package here,"
s^id Miller, a local optometrist,
"h ought to be investigated or
closed down altogether.'^
Miller said it was an incon
venience tp people who live and
work in the area to have to go to
another post office to receive
,sfry ices they should be able to
^ceive in their neighborhood
{ios\ 6ffic6:
? ^ / "We shouldn't have to go
somewhere else for anything,"
he said. "Look at the size of this
parking lot. We ought to be able
to do more than buy stamps out
of a machine from a facility like
this."
Ernestine N. Carter, presi
dent of the local postal service
union, said it has always been a
concern that tliere is no window
service offered at the Main,
branch. She said the space for a
? Window?section in the Main
branch, Which is in the heart of j
the African-American commu
nity, is vacant. /
\ "It is in the center of the
black community, but it does not
?benefit the brack community,"
Carter said. "There are limited
income people in the area who
have' to catch a bus to cash food
$tamp vouchers.
-Thifr is one of thr issue that ?
customers come into the post
office everyday wanting to know
^tfre answer to," said Carter, who
^yorks in the Main branch. "Thdy
?tyant to know why they can't
<ome into the station and get
^jioney orders; they Want to
rkijow why they can't come into
the station and get food stamps
-or ml^il a small package."
! * i- She said union members will
conduct a poll?of several area
residents on what type of service
ihey would like to see in the area
and submit it to Postmaster J.
Mark Matics.
the Main branch, said the branch
is a delivery and distribution
center and that it did not replace
the old Main branch on Fifth
Street and that it was never
intended to offer "retail services"
when it began operation March
1991.
When the old Main branch
was closed down, he said, it was
replaced with the Center City
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"precarious." The Chronicle
regrets this error.
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branch on Town Run Lane,
which offers full services.
"Retail was really all left
downtown, where it should be,"
Matics said. He said there have
been^discussions about adding a
window to the Main branch, but
there are no plans to do so.
"If he is as concerned about
the public as he says," said
Carter, "then why is this concern
that the public has not been
remedied? Their question then
is: 'What is this big, beautiful
building here for?'"
Others, like ~ Belinda
Humphrey, don't complain
because they have gotten used to
it. The secretary7 of New
Covenant Church off Stratford
Road lives near the Main branch,
but handles most of the church
mailings at the Miller Street
branch.
"When I leave here, I've got
an eight-mile drive over there
and back," she said. "I've been
doing it so long, I'm used to it
now."
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