A solution for Post Office lines

To the Editor:

Solution to long Post Office lines:

In a Post Office far, far away in western Massachusetts (Dalton), you don’t have to stand in line to get a parcel that is too big for your P.O. box. Instead of finding a green card in your P.O. box, you’ll find a key with a number on it. The key will open one of the many large, numbered, different-size wall boxes. Your key opens the same numbered wall box which contains your package. The key opens the box, but cannot be removed except by a postal worker, which he does when he is restocking the empty wall boxes. Restocking takes place at non-peak hours. If space can be made in a Post Office to install these wall boxes, it’s a self-serve win-win method. In Vineyard Haven, installing a bank of wall boxes against the lower wall below the window where people stand in line for service might be a good spot.

Peter Pfluger
Vineyard Haven