Post by Freehold Resident on Aug 16, 2006 15:17:23 GMT -5
Freehold post office lot hazardous
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/12/06
I read your June 28 editorial regarding the lack of a drop-off box at the new Bayville Post Office. Congratulations to you. I live in Freehold. I am a lawyer who has had my office there since 1979. In addition, I am handicapped and cannot walk. I depend on an electric scooter to get around.
Everyone who has ever visited the Freehold Township Post Office is aware of the poor entrance to the parking lot. The entrance first curves to the right and then to the left. It is impossible for a car to enter and a car to exit at the same time. If you ever can get into the lot, the parking is very dangerous because there is little room to back out of your slot because of other cars waiting for a parking place. Also, pedestrians are walking all around the cars, which is very hazardous. Customers are even parking their cars in the Foodtown parking lot and walking across the street to the post office, which is also dangerous.
There is no drop-off mailbox for cars. More than half the cars entering the parking lot are merely customers dropping off mail. I have even waited in the parking lot and asked strangers passing by to place my mail in the box inside the post office.
The U.S. Postal Service is morally obligated to provide services to seniors and disabled persons. With the dangerous conditions in the parking lot, it would be prudent for the post office to provide a drive-up box at a nearby spot — perhaps in the Foodtown parking lot. Better yet, the post office should expand its parking area to the vacant field just south of the parking lot. It could then make the traffic one-way. But please get rid of the present curved entrance and exit.
James A. Polon
FREEHOLD
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/12/06
I read your June 28 editorial regarding the lack of a drop-off box at the new Bayville Post Office. Congratulations to you. I live in Freehold. I am a lawyer who has had my office there since 1979. In addition, I am handicapped and cannot walk. I depend on an electric scooter to get around.
Everyone who has ever visited the Freehold Township Post Office is aware of the poor entrance to the parking lot. The entrance first curves to the right and then to the left. It is impossible for a car to enter and a car to exit at the same time. If you ever can get into the lot, the parking is very dangerous because there is little room to back out of your slot because of other cars waiting for a parking place. Also, pedestrians are walking all around the cars, which is very hazardous. Customers are even parking their cars in the Foodtown parking lot and walking across the street to the post office, which is also dangerous.
There is no drop-off mailbox for cars. More than half the cars entering the parking lot are merely customers dropping off mail. I have even waited in the parking lot and asked strangers passing by to place my mail in the box inside the post office.
The U.S. Postal Service is morally obligated to provide services to seniors and disabled persons. With the dangerous conditions in the parking lot, it would be prudent for the post office to provide a drive-up box at a nearby spot — perhaps in the Foodtown parking lot. Better yet, the post office should expand its parking area to the vacant field just south of the parking lot. It could then make the traffic one-way. But please get rid of the present curved entrance and exit.
James A. Polon
FREEHOLD