[NFBMO] Post Office Question

[Roger Crome]

Thank you very much for the responses thus far.  I was at my chapter meeting and couldn’t look until now.  I do have the ability to get my hands on a label maker and have thought about putting a label on my box.  The numbers on the boxes are not raised.  Thank you, Nancy, for that thought process.  I do know the print alphabet and numbers and use this method sometimes.  I also could probably use the seeing AI app but was so frustrated I didn’t think about trying.  Iguess what really frustrated me was the dismissive way I was told fat chance.  


I think my next step will be to put my request in writing for documentation.  I guess we’ll go from there.  The postal service has been giving serious consideration to ending rural delivery and continuing to scale back.  I am wondering if PO Boxes may be the snail mail method of the future.  So, I would like to see accessibility be built in  from the beginning of any transition.    To me, lack of accessibility is purely unacceptable, and I wondered if others have dealt with this and how it was approached.  In the meantime, I’ll work on making it work for me.

Again, thank you for the ideas and hearing my rant.  Lol

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 5, 2018, at 8:48 PM, nancy Lynn via NFBMO <nfbmo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Are the mailboxes labeled with raised print? Do you know the print alphabet? If not, you might want to learn it so you can read raised print signs and other information. If you do know it, then try to read the raised print on the mailboxes if it's there.
> Nancy Lynn seabreeze.stl at gmail.com
> -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Schulz via NFBMO
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 8:20 PM
> To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
> Cc: Bryan Schulz
> Subject: Re: [NFBMO] Post Office Question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Do you have the label maker with the dial that spins or a metal slate with the tape slots?
> Make something short and stick it on your box or get lost and burn time waiting for the office.
> Bryan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBMO <nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Carol Coulter via NFBMO
> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 6:29 PM
> To: NFB list serve <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Carol Coulter <cjcoulter59 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFBMO] Post Office Question
> 
> If they won't do it I would ask if there is in reason you couldn't put a braille label on yours. At least then you could look for the one that had braille on it and wouldn't be wasting your time trying to open the wrong box.
> Carol
> 
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:58 PM Roger Crome via NFBMO <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Everyone,
>> I have a situation that I wanted some feedback on.  I obtained a PO
>> Box for my business because I’m not at my office much and wanted to
>> make sure that important stuff stays safe.  I mentioned that there was
>> a need for Braille on the boxes, and ironically, when I went to check
>> the box, I forgot my landmarks.  As a result, I tried multiple times
>> to open the wrong box.  The attendant was very nice and came out to
>> help me re-orient.  I mentioned again about Braille, and the gentleman
>> told me that he brought it up to the Post Master and the response was
>> that it is probably fat chance that it would happen.  I told him that
>> the ADA is a federal law, and since the USPS is a federal agency, the
>> law applies to them too.  He stated understanding and said that he will bring it up again.
>> 
>> My question is this, how would you proceed?  Finding the box is doable
>> as long as I remember the landmarks, but it has already been proven
>> that my memory can fail me.
>> 
>> I appreciate any feedback.  Thanks,
>> Roger Crome
>> 
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