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People are unwilling to live in these pricey mountain towns on the low
pay that is the new normal for Americans. Billionaires have sucked up
the wealth that used to go toward paying living wages to Americans, so
only upper-middle-class and upper class people live in those towns. The
people who are expected to serve them are either living in their cars or
maybe in some subsidized motel. The things that used to draw young
people to Colorado that might have made them overlook the low pay just
aren't there anymore.

Mind you, if you're a professional football or basketball player, you
can live on the ten figure salary you get paid. You just won't get your
mail delivered if you live in Buena Vista.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/buena-vista-mail-problems/73-869b4607-a149-45d9-bc95-433e55d53372

BUENA VISTA, Colo. — There's that mail carrier motto about nothing
getting in the way of their appointed rounds. "Neither snow nor rain nor
heat nor gloom," the saying goes.

But the motto doesn't cover everything.

Katy Drawbridge lives in Buena Vista, where postal problems persist.

"Lately, probably within the past two weeks we haven't received
anything," she said. "No junk mail, no letters, no anything that we've
ordered. We have not received anything."

It's not weather getting in the way of delivery in Drawbridge's mountain
town about two hours southwest of Denver. A USPS spokesperson in
Colorado said it's due to staffing shortages.

"It's very frustrating," Drawbridge said.


Credit: Katy Drawbridge
USPS spokesperson James Boxrud wrote in an email that Buena Vista's post
office is short half their staff. They've got openings for two full-time carriers, four substitute carriers, and three clerks.

The job posting for a carrier said salaries start at $24.42 an hour.

Boxrud said because these are national jobs, they can't offer any kind
of local incentives to hire people in specific areas.

"We're just a little town but we definitely should get our mail," said Drawbridge.

For now, the postmaster there is prioritizing medicine deliveries and
USPS is sending a few employees from other locations to Buena Vista for
two to three weeks.

"We know we have not met service expectations of the community, and are
working hard to restore the respect of the public," said Boxrud.

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And it's 1, 2, 3, 4 what are fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give
dam, the next stop is Banderastan!

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