From Dave Searles

Brodhead

To the Editor:

A first class postage stamp now costs 73 cents.  The postmaster general has now proposed from 2025 to 2027 more increases.  

The U.S. Postal Service is one of the most mismanaged, inefficient and wasteful organizations ever created.  Every time postage rates are increased, more and more businesses, as well as people, find alternative means of communicating.  Increased rates are a never-ending spiral with the little people caught in it.  It is time for Congress to put an end to these postage rate increases.  

One way to resolve the U.S. Postal Service’s financial problems is not to require it to contribute so much to the retirement fund.  No other entity is required to contribute so much.

Political signs should not be placed in the terrace.  The terrace, as public right-of-way is therefore considered neutral territory.  It extends in most cases from the edge of the street to one foot inside of the sidewalk line towards the home whether there is a sidewalk or not.  As far as I know, every city, town and village have this regulation, whether written or not, because is considered a standard.   

Some property owners claim that if they have to mow the grass in the terrace, that they should be able to put up a political sign in terrace.  Property owners are required to maintain the terrace, including mowing it, but again political signs are not supposed to be placed in the terrace because it is considered neutral territory.