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As Lahaina residents have been rebuilding their burned homes, many also installed new mailboxes, hoping their home mail delivery would resume. But the U. S. Postal Service has said it considers the rebuilt neighborhoods as new developments, which would get centralized delivery, rather than their former curbside service. That policy has received widespread pushback from Lahaina homeowners and lawmakers, who say fire survivors should, at a minimum, have the same services they did before the fire. Now, the postal service says it may reconsider that policy for Lahaina if certain safety measures are put in place. The information comes in response to a letter Mayor Richard Bissen wrote last month, requesting the USPS restore delivery.
The USPS cites that challenges to safely accessing mailboxes in Lahaina are not a new issue. “Prior to August 2023, carriers reported difficulties safely accessing mailboxes from their vehicles, due to excessive street parking and sidewalks that were constructed after curbside mail delivery had been established,” the USPS stated in their letter, dated Oct. 9.
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