Bogged Down In Botsford

To the Editor:

With regard to your article about the “uncertain” future of the Botsford Post Office, I was one of those people who received an unsatisfactory letter of explanation from Phillip A. Piccolo, manager of consumer affairs for the Connecticut District of the Post Office.

As I read your story it seems that everyone is blaming everyone else instead of working together to solve the problem. Those of us who have to travel either to Monroe or to the main post office in town, adding pollution to the atmosphere and cars to the already overburdened road system, not to mention the escalating price of gasoline, are very disturbed by the scenario outlined in your article. This whole process is taking an unusually long time for a project that was approved long before, as I understand it, any cost cutting measures were instituted at the Post Office.

I am sending another letter, this time addressed to the Postmaster General, to see if this building can be hurried along. If your readers are as annoyed as I am I hope they will join me in writing their own letter or in cutting out the article and sending it with a note to Washington.

The address is as follows:

William J. Henderson, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, US Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza W, SW, Washington, DC 20260-0010.

Please continue to keep us up to date on this story as events unfold.

Sincerely,

Patricia M. Hammalian

Washbrook Road, Newtown                                        May 19, 2001