Dear Source,
This is somewhat related to the other problems people have mentioned about not having access to deliveries from the mainland. We are subscribers to a daily newspaper, Investor's Business Daily. We should receive a paper every day, even though it may be a day or two behind (we understand this). But the way they are delivered is truly ridiculous. We will get a week-old issue one day, nothing the next, and then three or four issues at one time.
They are mailed from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to the Frederiksted post office. When we had a subscription to this newspaper delivered to our P.O. box at the Kingshill post office, we received one every day. We called to talk to the postmaster. He was on break. We called back. He was at lunch. The man I talked to told me that a "daily" newspaper was not a "daily newspaper." Huh? Did I miss something?
We also subscribed to Money magazine. After we received two issues, our carrier sent word to the magazine company that the magazine was "undeliverable," effectively canceling our subscription. Yet, this same carrier delivered a letter from Money magazine using that same address.. Why wasn't the letter also "undeliverable"? Make sense? It doesn't to me. I can see why people are using e-mail. UPS, faxes and any other means of delivery of mail, rather than the U.S. Postal Service. Why can't they get it right? Help!
Wayne Myers
St. Croix

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