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‘X’ marks the spot of the missing mailboxes
Dear Postmaster General,
I am writing to you today because I’d like my favorite mailboxes back. You know which ones I’m talking about – the two that stood sentry for the lightpole on the northeast corner of 7th and D Streets NW in front of Oyamel’s window next to the relic we now call a pay phone. All that remains are the bolt holders on the sidewalk.
At a recent DNA meeting, I learned that the Secret Service disassembles Pennsyvlania Avenue and I’m guessing anything inside the secure zone so that Barack and Michelle and their adoring fans would be safe from hidden threats for the inauguration and all the associated festivities. Maybe you thought some enterprising vendor would come along, slap an Obama sticker on the side of it and try to sell it as an commerative inauguration mailbox. I understand. Or maybe you thought some one would climb and stand on top of the mailbox, dive into the masses waiting at 6 am to get into the parade route and body surf. I understand.
But, Tuesday came and went without incident (except for the purple gate ticketholders), life has now resumed its usual sonata and I need to mail my bill payments. You’ve heard the saying, “Leave something the way you found it.” Well? I know that fixing the water main break on 7th Street was important but that’s a city service, not a federal service so that’s no excuse. The spirit of “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” is hard to uphold if there are no mailboxes from which to pluck mail.
In conclusion, please put my part of the city back together again so I can go about my business of hope and change.
Yours truly,
pqresident
P.S. Please don’t forget to replace the mailboxes in front of McPherson Station at 1750 Pennsyvlania Avenue NW. I use those too.
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Comments
That’s funny. I was thinking the same thing about my favorite trash can by the Building Museum (3rd and G NW) this morning. You know — the one where the dog owners can put the dog waste into? Please bring that back as well.
Last time the newspaper boxes were removed for the G20 summit, I had to email the Express to remind them that they use to have boxes near Judiciary Square. Today they decided to tease me by retuning the boxes but not filling them with papers. Someday this city will return to what we consider normal.
they have mail drops in every office building – always a mail room somewhere on the lobby floor. Just ask a building guard to direct you.
I’ll second that one about the trash cans! In the meantime, my dog and I will keep using the Building Museum’s dumpster, but I miss, you know, feeling like I lived in a city with basic Victorian-era amenities.
have i mentioned before..how fun i think the neighborhood pay phones are?? i have the numbers to most of them on my cell..
for you know…so when im bored walking down the street.. i can call ahead.. xoxo
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And please replace the newspaper boxes too! I had to search far and wide for a Washington Post yesterday. I wound up having to buy it at CVS – which meant waiting in a long line AND paying tax on it.