You’re eyes do not deceive you, the Red Phone has returned to
Wednesday and Saturday publication
– thanks to the numerous residents who have dialed up the
Crimson Crusader seeking help, answers and justice in their
plights. Keep the calls coming – Red Phone’s now working twice a
week. Got a question, need an answer, call the Red Phone – always
waiting, always online always at 635-9219.
You’re eyes do not deceive you, the Red Phone has returned to Wednesday and Saturday publication – thanks to the numerous residents who have dialed up the Crimson Crusader seeking help, answers and justice in their plights. Keep the calls coming – Red Phone’s now working twice a week. Got a question, need an answer, call the Red Phone – always waiting, always online always at 635-9219.
Mailbox blues
A caller to the Red Phone questions the postmaster’s assertion that recently removed mail drop boxes did not receive enough mail on average to make them cost effective for our local post office.
“Thank you Crimson Crusader for all the research and reporting on the removal of mail drop boxes in various locations. In the past few years, mail drop boxes have been removed from the corner of Powell and B streets, East and Sixth street behind World Savings, and Sunnyslope Road and Memorial Drive, the Heath Medical complex across from the Sunnyslope School. All of these locations generate way more than 25 pieces of mail daily. Obviously, the postmaster doesn’t know the mail at these locations was being collected three times daily, once by the regular mail carrier on the route and twice by vehicle pick-up at 2pm and 5pm every afternoon. Because of necessity the solution should be bringing the mail drop boxes back to these locations and have the mail collected once daily instead of three times daily. Or is the root of the problem laziness on the part of postal employees?”
In a prior Red Phone, Hollister Postmaster Judy Dunfield said the U.S. Postal Service has a policy to only maintain drop boxes that receive an average of 25 pieces of mail per day. The Red Phone was investigating the sudden disappearance of a drop box at Sixth and San Benito streets. When Red Phone called Dunfield back yesterday at 2pm she was out of the office and didn’t return phone calls to the Crimson Crusader. Until she does, she’s on hold. Call Judy Dunfield at 637-5633 and ask her why the boxes were removed, and while you’re at it – tell her to call the Red Phone back.
The time has come
It’s been almost a year, 356 days to be exact, since Red Phone first started investigating the clock tower at Fourth and San Benito streets. The troublesome timepiece was off by about 15 minutes and raised the ire of several Red Phone callers over the last year. Now the Red Phone is happy to report the historic clock is once again accurately telling time from its perch high above Hollister’s downtown – thanks to the Masonic Lodge and the Mr. Yantz at Enterprise Electric. A Free Lance reader wrote our editor and our editor told the Red Phone. Another problem off the hook.
