Where's the Post Office?

We are back from a three-day trip to Forest Lake, MN (near the Wisconsin border). We attended the funeral of Erleen's uncle Donald Lende. Donald was a very colorful character and his funeral was equally colorful.

The most recent crisis is the proposed closing of our post office. The Posatal Service wants to close about 3,700 offices, mostly rural. They say they can save $200 million by doing so. This is only one-third of one percent of the Service's budget and 2.5 percent of its projected deficit. The post office in Hannaford has 2 full-time and 1 parttime employees. This represents probably 5 percent of our entire work force. The post office is an iconic part of rural life. Since there is no home delivery here, we see our neighbors several times a week at the PO. The Post-mistress has all the local news about the weather, the crops and who died or is getting married. We attended a meeting last night to decide how to best fight this tragedy. I don't know how much we can do, but we will make an effort.