Going postal: Town battles to save mailbox

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Life  Sat, 07/18/2009 - 01:18

Marianne Izzo-Morin, left, and Sharon Matthews, pose in front of the only remaining public mailbox in Otisfield, Maine. The U.S.<br /><br />Postal Service has proposed removing the box in the name of efficiency and cost-effectiviness. The folks of Otisfield are so fond of their lone public mailbox that they blocked it with a snowplow and a backhoe to prevent the Postal Service from taking it away in the gloom of night.




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