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Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos |
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Posted by Fred G on Sun Nov 22 17:22:31 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 17:10:05 2009. Somebody has to water that stuff too.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 17:24:21 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Fred G on Sun Nov 22 17:22:31 2009. And pick the dead flowers off every so often.... |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:26:18 2009, in response to Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:15:37 2009. Just a different way of looking at things I guess. People that have cars in LA aren't going to walk more than a block if they can drive and get parking. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:26:39 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:17:06 2009. Thank you. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 17:27:12 2009, in response to Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:15:37 2009. Actually, I take back what I said about Suffolk too, I am thinking of the four post offices in the surrounding towns to me, and one of them, in a Downtown, only has street parking, no parking lot (although there is a municipal lot a block away for Downtown parking.The post office was built in the 1910's, so to answer Easy's question, "that" is probably what they were thinking....cars weren't a real issue back then, and that is probably true of some other "suburban" post offices we have in Nassau and Suffolk without parking. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:32:08 2009, in response to Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:15:37 2009. Here's the one closest to me.View Larger Map And the next closest. Both have plenty of parking. View Larger Map |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:37:46 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 16:44:40 2009. Right. These small government types should be happy they're saving paint. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:41:55 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 16:56:30 2009. If there's an eastern Queens post office with a parking lot, this might be good to know. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:42:37 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Nov 22 16:14:56 2009. four post offices near me in Queens, two of which were in Long Island as well.The other two were in the Bronx? :-D |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:44:30 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:32:08 2009. Ha, Newkirk Ave! I never heard of Newkirk until I got to NYC.The post offices back near Scranton where I grew up had parking, though some had more than others. This is the one they call "the main post office" and it has tons of parking. View Larger Map |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:45:53 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:42:37 2009. heh |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:46:36 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:44:30 2009. That's a ton of parking. I rarely go to the post office anymore. I'm always surprised when I go by how many people are there. Same with going inside a bank. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:49:34 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:05:35 2009. A lot of them are super old and date back to the 20s. The weird one is this one, which was built in the 1990s. Not providing parking is just asinine.View Larger Map The parking lot on the left is for McDonald's. They even put up a sign inside that the parking lot is for McDonald's customers only. They could have built the thing at street level instead of having the stupid steps and then done what that medical center to the right has. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:53:11 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Fred G on Sun Nov 22 02:16:58 2009. I don't think that matters. Newark has all that fancy crap and I wouldn't call it gentrified, while Williamsburg is gentrified and they don't have those street accouterments. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:55:27 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:46:36 2009. Heh. I go to the post office to buy stamps and to mail packages that require purchasing larger amounts of postage. I only go into banks to use the ATMs. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:56:26 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:53:11 2009. The fancy crap in newark was just put in for the Prudential Center opening. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:01:36 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:44:30 2009. Oh, I just noticed why you mentioned Newkirk Avenue. I'm not sure why they list that address. None of the streets there are named Newkirk that I'm aware of. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:10:20 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:41:55 2009. Not sure. Certainly not in western Queens. I didn't mean to sound "positve" abotu eastern Queens, but if anywhere in Queens it would be eastern Queens --- thinking towns like Douglaston or something. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Dan on Sun Nov 22 18:11:07 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 17:27:12 2009. New Dorp, Staten Island 10306 has a small but adequate parking lot. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:16:33 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:49:34 2009. Yeah, that's what I am thinking too. The one I mentioned in Suffolk, Patchogue, without a lot is right on main St, and it dates to the 1910's or 1920's. The ones out here that don't have parking, usually are either in a downtown, or an old building such as this one in Patchogue:View Larger Map |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 18:17:02 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 17:55:27 2009. I almost always use vending machines at the post office. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:19:31 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 18:17:02 2009. None of the post offices near me even have vending machines!I use the post office often, but I have been shipping a lot of packages lately. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:20:19 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 18:17:02 2009. i haven't seen any of the old fashion vending machines, which i used to use all the time. the Farley has the new things. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:21:25 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:49:34 2009. if there's adequate parking on street at meters, it might not need its own parking lot. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:21:51 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:16:33 2009. Haha, and there's those "gentrifying" lightposts and brick lined sidewalks....lol. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:23:03 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Dan on Sun Nov 22 18:11:07 2009. You would almost kinda expect it in Staten Island....the only borough where I would assume it's like a 50/50 chance. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:23:29 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:01:36 2009. google could be wrong, but...View Larger Map |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:24:12 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:20:19 2009. I always used the vending machines at the post office on East 24th St years back.....definitely the "old style" ones. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:33:55 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:19:31 2009. I have been shipping a lot of packages lately.:::Lenny dutifully ships the plutonium, making small talk with Carl in the process.::: Shame they don't have the actual conversation. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:34:41 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:23:29 2009. It's definitely wrong on the streetview that I put up because it says that it's Long Beach when it's actually in Carson. Still the "street" could be Newkirk, but if you look closely the "street" is just a parking lot. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:36:31 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:34:41 2009. That may actually be a mapped street that the parking lot took over?And if you look at the street view for the post offices I posted near me, the maps say "NY, NY" instead of "Bronx, NY". |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:40:22 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:20:19 2009. Which ones do you consider old-fashioned? I consider old-fashioned to be like cigarette machines, which I'm guessing you're too young to remember. The ones where you have a handle and pull the handle below your selection.For the last 15 years I've used the ones kind of like a candy machine where you enter "C", "1" and then the quantity. Those have been getting replaced by fully digital ones that accept only credit cards. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:41:30 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:36:31 2009. But the Bronx is part of NY, NY. Long Beach and Carson are separate cities. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:41:30 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:36:31 2009. But the Bronx is part of NY, NY. Long Beach and Carson are separate cities. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:43:55 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 22 18:19:31 2009. They don't put vending machines in the lobbies of high crime areas like Compton, Oakland, and Suffolk because people break into them. ;) |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Nov 22 18:56:45 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:41:30 2009. True, but sometimes the postal boundaries don't match up with the political boundaries. To wit zip code 90248, which according to USPS is Gardena, but most of it is located in the city of Los Angeles (the so-called Harbor Gateway strip). Same thing happens where I live, where 3 cities (Hollywood, Miramar and Pembroke Pines) share a zip code. The default goes to Hollywood, since it is the oldest of the 3 (Miramar incorporated 1956, Pembroke Pines in 1960, making it the only city I've ever lived in that was younger than I am). |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:59:09 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Nov 22 18:56:45 2009. Yeah for the post office I can see that. Carson is only 40 years old and has historically been considered "Long Beach" as far as the post office is concerned. But it shouldn't be considered Long Beach by google maps. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Nov 22 19:03:04 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Nov 22 18:56:45 2009. Here's a link that illustrates what I was talking about re: 90248Link The red lines are the actual borders of the city of Gardena. Note that the bulk of 90248 is outside the city. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 19:05:36 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Nov 22 19:03:04 2009. Don't take this the wrong way, but are you a minority? I've always wondered how you ended up in Gardena which is almost entirely minority. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 19:13:10 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:40:22 2009. The fully digital ones are the Automated Postal Machines. The candy machine type ones were useful since they could sell the small denomination stamps during a rate hike. The APM doesn't accept transactions below $1, so one has to buy extra stamps. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 19:13:46 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 18:21:25 2009. False. Meters require you to walk some distance and even cross streets, plus they cost money. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Nov 22 19:22:42 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 17:49:34 2009. A lot of them are super old and date back to the 20s.Of the post offices that I use or used to use... - Cambria Heights, Queens (1980s) no parking lot - Elmont, Nassau County (1960s) no parking lot - East Meadow, Nassau County (1960s) no parking lot - North Bellmore, Nassau County (1960s) no parking lot - Valley Stream, Nassau County (IIRC, 1950s), no parking lot - Uniondale, Nassau County, (IIRC, 2006), no parking lot |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Nov 22 19:29:15 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 17:46:36 2009. I usually go to the regional processing facility near me since it's on my commute back home from work, features APCs, and since it's open until 7 PM, it has the last pick up in the area. Thus, I end up going to drop mail, pick up stamps, and order money orders. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 19:37:30 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Nov 22 19:29:15 2009. Me too! I go to the regional processing facility in Long Beach because that knocks a day off the delivery schedule. It's on my commute home, but it is over a mile off the freeway. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 19:41:34 2009, in response to Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Nov 22 19:22:42 2009. Yeah, that's bizarre that they would build them in those eras without parking lots. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 19:42:02 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Nov 22 19:29:15 2009. Why do you need money orders? |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 19:45:19 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 19:42:02 2009. Some people don't have checking accounts. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 22 19:51:56 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 19:45:19 2009. He doesn't seem like the kind of person who wouldn't. |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 19:58:48 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:41:30 2009. ok |
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Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 22 20:00:05 2009, in response to Re: Your Post Offices, and do they have parking (Was: Re: East LA/Boyle Heights photos), posted by Easy on Sun Nov 22 18:40:22 2009. The "C" "1" type. Those have disappeared from where I used to see them. Though I haven't checked all of the places around here I used to see them. |
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