{"id":4555,"date":"2009-03-18T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2009-03-18T08:51:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:51:04","slug":"one_by_one_theyre_taking_away_everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/one_by_one_theyre_taking_away_everything.html","title":{"rendered":"One By One, They’re Taking Away Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

And soon there will be nothing left<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The way Vincent Sapone sees it, the Staten Island postmark is bit like the “Made in the U.S.A.” label. <\/p>\n

“It’s a point of pride,” said Sapone, a 28-year employee of the U.S. Postal Service. <\/p>\n

So when Sapone — chief steward for mail handlers at the Manor Road Post Office in Castleton Corners — heard talk that bigwigs are weighing whether to shut down the facility’s outgoing mail processing service as a cost-cutting measure, the first thing he thought of was the postmark. <\/p>\n

And the fact that it might not be around much longer. That’s because the Postal Service is in the midst of a five-month study to see whether consolidating the processing of outgoing Staten Island mail with that of Brooklyn and Queens would make sense from an economic standpoint. <\/p>\n

Which would mean mailing a letter on Staten Island, having it taken by mail truck over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to have it processed and postmarked, and then having Staten Island-addressed mail brought back over the bridge to be distributed here. <\/p>\n

“No offense,” said Sapone, who resides in Westerleigh, “but we don’t live in Queens or Brooklyn, and that’s what the postmark would say.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And soon there will be nothing left: The way Vincent Sapone sees it, the Staten Island postmark is bit like the “Made in the U.S.A.” label. “It’s a point of pride,” said Sapone, a 28-year employee of the U.S. Postal Service. So when Sapone — chief steward for mail handlers at the Manor Road Post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}