By Ganapathy Subramaniam Gopinathan
Los Alamos

Mailboxes with house numbers outside houses on the road to be served by postal vans seem to be the normal order in the USA postal system, which is a laudable one indeed.

However as a newcomer I find in some streets in Los Alamos plenty of houses DO NOT have such mailbox necessitating postal delivery personnel to drive their vehicle, stop at every few seconds, get down and walk further to deliver mail, thereby spending extra labor and time and getting them physically tired also.

As a humane gesture why cannot it be made mandatory for every house to have an allotted mailbox except for those who opt of post box numbers and collect their posts from the post offices.

Since the County is literally in touch with every house owner in respect of property tax it would be simple for the County to check on this and mandate getting mailbox fixed at street level before their house in  coordination with the postmaster of the city.

If this is done it will help a lot in reducing the physically tiring labor of many post office delivery personnel.

This is a sincere suggestion.