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Residents Want Help With Their Mailboxes

It is something most of us do every single day.  You go to the mailbox or maybe the post office if you have a P-O box to check your mail.  Now, that sounds like a simple task.  But for some Bay County residents, that simple task has turned into a chore.  Now, they want something done about it.  They passed their concerns on to News 13’s Problem Solver Department and this is what we found out.

“When I first moved out here they said I had to put it out there because I was the only one out here,” says Bay County resident Henton Durden.  And you still won’t see a mailbox in front of Durden’s house.  Durden lives on Skunk Valley Lane which is just off of Skunk Valley Road in North Bay County.

For Durden and the seven other families who live on Skunk Valley Lane, in order to check their mail everyday, they have to come down to the end of the street which is approximately a half mile for some folks to a row of mailboxes.  They want them moved closer to their homes or changed for better security.

Durden says he sent a letter in January last year to the Panama City Postmaster Pat Campbell.  Durden says he received a response from Postmaster Campbell in April of last year.  Durden says, “I got a petition and sent it to him and he sent a letter back stating he would put a box out front a lock box.”

That was fine with Mr. Durden and his neighbors.  But even after all of that, there is still no change with the mailboxes.  Durden says, “I can’t get my medication.  you see.  They will leave it at the mailbox...you don’t ever know when they will run.  They have been vandalized nine times in nine years.”

Postmaster Pat Campbell tells News 13 he has not received a petition from the residents.  But, if all of them agree, he is ready to help as best as he can.  Campbell says he has looked at the problem firsthand, “so when we went out there and checked, it is not a county maintained road.  It is a private road.  So, the solution I offer is that we will put a cluster box that is locked that only the residents of that road can get into and if is something too big for that we will bring it down there to their house.”

Postmaster Campbell says once he hears from the residents, he can have the new cluster box up within a couple of weeks.  That should at least help with mail security.


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