Editorial titled “Stamp of Reality” laments: “If the U.S. Postal Service closes up shop on West Chestnut Street in downtown Lancaster, as it has suggested it will do as part of the continued scaling back of its retail operations, some regular customers are bound to grouse about the inconvenience.
“Those not inclined to trek over to Ganse Apothecary on West King Street — the lone remaining postal substation in the city — would have to find transportation out of the city to weigh their packages and buy their stamps.”
WATCHDOG: We doubt that center city residents will be put to any inconvenience. Rather, it is likely that they will receive the usual services of a post office plus a plethora of other features than through the establishment of one or more private UPS Stores downtown such as the outlet at 590 Centerville Road in the Giant Shopping Center.
Taxpayers who have to make up the Postal Services deficit will save money; customers will be better served; somebody will make a buck!
If the West Chestnut Street postal station (it is not a post office in itself, the Lancaster Post Office is located at 1500 Harrisburg Pike) should be closed, the major change would probably be that most mail now delivered to post office boxes would be delivered by the letter carriers. The greatest change would probaly be the increased workload on the downtown letter carriers.