American Citizens want their Post Offices!

Barnstable Town Councilwoman Ann Canedy listens while Michael Foley, project coordinator for the U.S. Postal Service, explains the recent review of Cummaquid Post Office.

CUMMAQUID - It is not often (click here) the much maligned U.S. Postal Service gets praise or applause, but that’s what it got Oct. 18 when postal officials announced to a school gymnasium full of Cummaquid residents that everything would remain the same at their favorite neighborhood gathering place, the tiny Cummaquid Post Office on Route 6A.

“There are no changes being made at all,” said Michael Foley, project manager in charge of reviewing the future of small post offices like Cummaquid in the eastern half of the state. The crowd of more than 80 post office customers broke out in applause. “Cummaquid is not on the radar now for any discontinuance or suspension,” he said....