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Have you heard in the news lately about the possible shutdown of some post offices around the country? When I first heard I thought, no way, we need those places. But now I am not so sure. Here is the saga we have been living through the past month. One day my kids went to get the mail from our box, which is one in a cluster of boxes, a neighborhood unit. The door would not close. The lock would not latch. Our mail was open to any who walked by and looked. So I called the post office - the local one - to report it. The manager said he would send someone out to look at it. I don't think anyone came, because nothing looked different at all. This was a Friday and of course they are closed over the weekend. So my husband went out to try and tighten the screw and see what he could do to keep our mail to ourselves. And the box lock worked fine for a couple of days. Then my kids went out again towards the end of the next week and could not open the lock. It was stuck tight and would...