FOLLOWUP: Westwood Village will get its drive-up mailbox back

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(August 28th photo, courtesy Megan)
How long does it take to fix a fire-damaged mailbox?

More than three months, in the case of the Westwood Village Post Office’s drive-up mailbox, gone since a fire in late August. (Repairs took only a few days when the same box was hit by a driver back in March.)

When we followed up on its continued absence in September, US Postal Service regional spokesperson Ernie Swanson told WSB that no spare boxes of this type were available, so this one had to be fixed.

As prime holiday-mailing season approached, we started asking again about its whereabouts. Today, finally an answer. Swanson says, “Repairs to the damaged mail collection box have been completed and it should be re-installed at the PO soon.”

How soon? Too … soon … to say. Let us know if you see it before we do (206-293-6302, text or voice hotline, day or night, and yes, in this case, the mailbox’s return would qualify as breaking news).

martin December 11, 2015 (12:15 pm)

where is kevin costner when you need him…

cjboffoli December 11, 2015 (1:05 pm)

A multi-billion dollar organization and they can’t come up with one new mailbox. Wow.

Scott December 11, 2015 (1:57 pm)

I agree cjboffoli they couldn’t come up with a new box, it didn’t need to be exactly the same box just mail box or how about two smaller ones next to each other. This is a prime example of the type of lack of common since in the government. What a joke. Time to clean shop and start fresh with new blood.

roxy December 11, 2015 (2:15 pm)

$$ are tied up funding retirement for employees for the next 75 years as required by the Bush administration.

unknown December 11, 2015 (3:38 pm)

My cousin worked for the USPS for 30 plus years and he says they are not a multi-billion dollar organization and got out when he still had some retirement from them.