It is in Iowa anyway as even just a couple of years ago the government was trying to reduce the number of post offices here in Iowa. Some don’t have many customers. I live in a town with 125 water meters. That includes about 10 commercial customers. We don’t have police or mail delivery or illegal aliens either. Anyway they wanted to eliminate our constitutionally required post office. They ended up not doing that because even though there are only a couple hundred boxes at the post office many are for very old single people who can’t drive ten miles to another post office. Anyway this was on the news heavily for a couple of months. It was these news articles that mentioned about how an Iowa former governor owns several small town buildings leased to be used as post offices. These are not fancy buildings. They are old tiny buildings. This town used an actual trailer park trailer for a couple of decades before a tiny brick building (think one room schoolhouse size) was built and leased to USPO. I don’t have a problem with this being privatized but we all know the USPO likely would give a governor the lease before some unknown guy like us because we ain’t in the club. I don’t know lease terms but likely very favorable to the former governor.
Was it public knowledge? I sure didn't know that.
It is in Iowa anyway as even just a couple of years ago the government was trying to reduce the number of post offices here in Iowa. Some don’t have many customers. I live in a town with 125 water meters. That includes about 10 commercial customers. We don’t have police or mail delivery or illegal aliens either. Anyway they wanted to eliminate our constitutionally required post office. They ended up not doing that because even though there are only a couple hundred boxes at the post office many are for very old single people who can’t drive ten miles to another post office. Anyway this was on the news heavily for a couple of months. It was these news articles that mentioned about how an Iowa former governor owns several small town buildings leased to be used as post offices. These are not fancy buildings. They are old tiny buildings. This town used an actual trailer park trailer for a couple of decades before a tiny brick building (think one room schoolhouse size) was built and leased to USPO. I don’t have a problem with this being privatized but we all know the USPO likely would give a governor the lease before some unknown guy like us because we ain’t in the club. I don’t know lease terms but likely very favorable to the former governor.