MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) — Some convenient drive-up mail boxes in downtown Marshfield that have been especially popular with special needs residents and senior citizens have been discontinued.
That change is due to construction of a new downtown plaza across the street from the city’s only post office.
City engineer Tom Turchi says there are still outdoor mail boxes at the Post Office, but you can’t drive-up to them. “The Post Office officials have relocated the mail boxes, and I understand one of them is located currently in the Post Office (employee) parking lot. You can drive in there, but the problem is, you still have to get out of your vehicle to get to it,” Turchi explained.
The city has already heard from some special needs individuals who consider the new placement a hardship, Turchi said. “We received a phone call here last week from a gentleman who is handicapped, and he says he cannot get to them with the locations where they’re at.”
“They basically belong to the Post Office,” Turchi said in regard to the mail boxes. “The city has no authority over them, we can’t touch them, we can’t move them. It’s up to them (the Post Office) to provide that type of access to their mailboxes,” so it’s out of the city’s hands according to Turchi.
The Post Office is in the process of trying to secure a new downtown drive-up location in front of a popular convenience store, the KwikTrip on the corner of Central Ave. and Veterans Parkway, and there are other drive-up locations in outlying areas of the city.
