Thursday, December 27, 2012

News About Roxie Post Office

Thursday, December 27, 2012


ROXIE, MS - According to Rhonda Bailey, Roxie Post Plan Coordinator, 1461 Lakeover Rd, Jackson, Ms 39213-8006, her office has sent letters to all postal customers of the Roxie Post Office.  

Here is a copy of the letter as received > 



The Postal Service has established a review process for certain Post Offices known as the POST Plan. The Roxie Post Office was among the offices evaluated under the POST Plan criteria.  The Postal Service is now soliciting community input through the enclosed survey to help determine the best course of action for providing postal services to your community. 
 After receiving the results of this survey, the Postal Service will examine the responses and, unless the community has a strong preference (more than 60 percent) for conducting a discontinuance study for the Roxie Post Office and establishing one of the additional sources of services described below, the Postal Service intends to maintain the Roxie Post Office with 4 hours of window service each weekday.  Current Saturday window service hours and access to delivery receptacles will not change as a result of the POST Plan realignment of weekday window service hours. 
In addition to this survey, the Postal Service will hold a meeting at Roxie Town Hall at 124 West Blvd, Roxie MS 39661 on 1/28/2013  at 6:00 PM to answer questions and provide additional information about POST Plan.  At the meeting, local management will share the results of the survey, answer questions, and solicit input regarding the time of day the Post Office will be open.  Although survey results will be known and shared, the Postal Service will not make a final decision regarding this office until after the public meeting.  This will enable the Postal Service to obtain all community input and opinions, from both the surveys and the meeting, before making a final decision.  
The Postal Service is also seeking locally established businesses or organizations to serve as contractor-operated postal retail units in communities like yours.  If you are interested in operating a postal retail unit, please visit the website at https://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/expandedaccess/welcome.htm for additional information.  Generally, these contractor-operator postal retail units will operate in combination with a community's Post Office.  However, selection of the third option in the attached survey indicates a preference of your Post Office to be studied for discontinuance with the establishment of a contractor-operated unit as a replacement for the Post Office. 
Please return the enclosed survey in the postage-paid envelope provided by 1/14/2013.  We kindly request the inclusion of your mailing address so that we can ensure that one survey response is submitted per address.  Please note that your response may be entered into a publicly accessible record. 
Thank you for your cooperation.SincerelyRhonda BaileyPost Plan Coordinator (a) 

*Please note that the date in the letter states 1/28/2013 for community meeting and based on information provided by Postal Website, this is correct. 


The Survey Questionnaire



Many times we do not take action as a citizen when it is necessary for the good of all our community residents.  A post office is a vital community source of pride as well as a needed establishment to identify our town.  If we standby and allow the same thing that happened to the removal of the Bank of Franklin Roxie Branch to happen to the Post Office, we have no others to blame except ourselves.  Be armed with information and ask questions. Below our staff has listed additional information and reference links.  Click and learn. 

Postal Facts > click here
Main Web Site > click here 
Village Post Offices > click here 
Future of Post Office > click here 

Source: USPS letter, News release from USPS and Public Records




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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Your Help Requested at 29th Annual Community Christmas Dinner

December 20, 2012 

ROXIE,MS -  The following message was posted on Facebook by Mr. Hollis McGehee. Our staff is passing it on to our readers.  A very good cause requiring a lot of volunteers & helpers. 



VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE
NEED YOUR HELP
NOTICE OF FRANKLIN COUNTY 
29TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER
Tomorrow, Friday, December 21, 2012
County Agent's Office in Meadville 
Workers beginning at 7:00 a.m.



We hope to feed 1000 people tomorrow - December 21st 
  • We have 44 turkeys
  • Today we are getting 15 hams
  • I am picking up about 300 pounds of dressing today
  • We have people preparing about 50 gallons of beans
  • WE NEED YOUR HELP:
  • Come help us pick 44 turkeys (they will be delivered Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. smoked but needing to be pulled apart)
  • To slice and prepare to serve 15 hams
  • To bring deserts individually wrapped: I need 1000 deserts (a slice of cake, a couple of cookies, etc) to put in each plate
I NEED SOMEONE / SEVERAL SOMEONES TO COME UP WITH AND PRINT 1000 SHEETS (MAYBE ABOUT 1/2 SHEET) BRIGHTLY COLORED PAPER THAT WISHES A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GIVES A POINTED, POWERFUL CHRISTMAS / GOSPEL BIBLICAL MESSAGE. (I WOULD ASK THAT YOU ALLOW ME TO LOOK OVER THE MESSAGE-BY SENDING ME A MESSAGE)
  • Need people to deliver meals to various areas around Franklin County and into surrounding counties to anyone who would enjoy the meal; no age requirement, no economic measuring stick: WHOSOEVER WILL ! :-)
  • Need people to help us put the plates together 
  • I would love to have someone to help us document this in photos to use to bless people with later in form of slideshow etc. 
  • TO COME AND PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT IS A GREAT JOY, ONE WE HAVE BEEN ENJOYING FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS
This event started in December, 1984 when I was talking to a local man I had known all my life at the post office in Meadville and I asked him what he was doing for Christmas. He told me he would be at home alone that day. That impacted me greatly for this man to be alone and I realized many would spend their day that way. We started the dinner to bring people together. That hasn't worked out like I thought but it has worked out the way God thought and so over those years it has grown each year. We missed one year due to my fault and failings. But anyway, this is a cool event and I hope you will participate. WE DON'T NEED ANY MONEY, we have received donations and all costs are covered but WE DO NEED YOU, YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR PRESENCE AND GOD'S LEADERSHIP AND HELP. AMEN.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, SEND ME A MESSAGE, Hollis McGehee 
AT 601-384-7066

Source > Repost Facebook >  https://www.facebook.com/jbonds1/posts/398739890205172

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

You Call this Justice / Too Big to Go to Jail

December 18, 2012
"Federal officials appeared quite pleased with themselves earlier this week when they announced their $1.9 billion settlement with HSBC. HSBC, the world’s third largest bank, has been accused of laundering money for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and clients with ties to terrorists".

This article was taken from Jonathan Turley's Blog ... get the full article by clicking here.  

Reference > http://jonathanturley.org/2012/12/15/you-call-this-justice-doj-criticized-for-its-settlement-with-too-big-to-jail-bank-hsbc/#more-58304 

Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger / Published 1, December 15, 2012

Source: Credit > Jonathan Turley's Blog