RIOT LOG: Friday Night Causualties - the Post Office

[dreamshark]

Here's what's left of The Lake Street Station, our local post office. As if the Postal Service weren't already under siege by our own government and in danger of collapse. When you see it at a distance you think, "Oh, they were wrong, it wasn't burnt to the ground!" Well, it turns out that while "gutted" isn't exactly the same thing as "burnt to the ground," in the end it's the same thing. Brick is hard to burn. But this building is not coming back. 

Comments

[pameladean]

Thank you for the photos. The message on the wall made me start crying. The staff at that post office has always been just stellar.

Raphael went to the Diamond Lake Post Office to mail some stuff and said, "THAT GUY was there!" This is the long-time postal clerk who has learned a smattering of every language spoken in our post office and is endlessly patient with people having trouble. He was written up in the Southwest Journal some years ago, but I can't remember his name, I'm sorry to say. I'm glad he still gets to work.

P.

[bibliofile]

Yay for someone who's THAT GUY in a good way.

Sadness for all the mail that was waiting for people in that building. How many people are going to have to wait even longer for their stimulus and other payments, now? Gah.

[dreamshark]

I don't think there was very much mail there. The station had been closed proactively a day or two before. Afterwards they announced that all the mail had been transferred to another station before the building was destroyed. That may have been their intent, but the live videos of the building on fire clearly showed a pile of packages flaming inside. The letter we had been waiting for eventually showed up when mail delivery restarted.