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6B Daily News – Thursday, July 25, 2013 No more mail at your door? Delivery changes eyed WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans for generations have come to depend on doorto-door mail delivery. It's about as American as apple pie. But with the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, the delivery service could be virtually phased out by 2022 under a proposal a House panel was considering Wednesday. Curbside delivery, which includes deliveries to mailboxes at the end of driveways, and cluster box delivery would replace letter carriers slipping mail into front-door boxes. The proposal is part of broader legislation by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year. The Postal Service had a $16 billion loss last year. The agency has been moving toward curbside and cluster box delivery in new residential developments since the 1970s. The Postal Service in April began deciding whether to provide such delivery for people moving into newly built homes rather than letting the developers decide. "A balanced approach to saving the Postal Service means allowing USPS to adapt to America's changing use of mail," Issa said. "Done right, these reforms can improve the customer experience through a more efficient Postal Service." About one in three mail customers has door-to-door delivery, Issa said. The shift would include safe and secure cluster box delivery areas, he said, especially for elderly customers who receive Social Security checks and prescriptions through the mail. About 30 million residential addresses receive delivery to boxes at the door or a mail slot. Another 87 million residential addresses receive curbside or cluster box delivery. The cost differences are clear. Curbside delivery costs average $224 per year for each address, while cluster box delivery averages $160. Doorto-door delivery costs the agency about $350 per year, on average. Sue Brennan, a Postal Service spokeswoman, said, "While converting delivery away from the door to curb or centralized delivery would allow the Postal Service to deliver mail to more addresses in less time, doing so is not included in our five-year plan." Brennan said the agency's five-year plan does call for shifting 20 percent of business address deliveries from doorto-door to curbside and cluster box delivery through 2016. Rep. Steve Lynch, D-Mass., said the plan to move some 30 million residential addresses from to-the-door to curbside and cluster box service would be virtually impossible in dense urban areas such as his hometown of South Boston crowded with triple-deckers — three apartments stacked on top of each other. "You'd have to knock houses down in my neighborhood to build cluster boxes," Lynch said. "This will not work." It might work in places like Manhattan with big apartment buildings, he said. "Look, there's no availability for cluster boxes in many communities around the country," Lynch said. Issa's plan allows for people with physical hardships to get waivers allowing them to keep door delivery. There's also a provision giving people the option to keep door delivery by paying a special fee to cover the additional cost. Issa's bill also allows the Postal Service to take into account factors such as poverty rates and population density in deciding which areas would be allowed to keep door delivery. The financially beleaguered Postal Service, an independent agency, gets no tax dollars for its day-to-day operations, but is subject to congressional control. The Postal Service is pursuing a major restructuring throughout its retail, delivery and mail processing operations. Since 2006, it has reduced annual costs by about $15 billion, cut its workforce by 193,000 or 28 percent, and consolidated more than 200 mail-processing locations. The service's losses are largely due to a decline in mail volume and a congressional requirement that it make advance payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees. About $11.1 billion of last year's losses were due to payments for future retiree health costs. The volume of mail handled by the Postal Service has decreased steadily as the popularity of email, Facebook and other electronic services has grown. Total mail volume handled by the agency fell to 160 billion pieces last year from its all-time high, 213.1 billion in 2006. Revenue fell to $65.2 billion last budget year, from a high of $74.9 billion in 2008. The Postal Service is considering several options to fix its finances, including negotiations with unions to reduce labor costs and another possible increase in prices. The service earlier this year backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery after running into opposition in Congress. It has tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully over the past several years to persuade Congress to approve ending Saturday mail delivery and to free the service from the advance health payments. The Senate last year passed a bill that would have stopped the Postal Service from eliminating Saturday service for at least two years and required it to try two years of aggressive cost cutting instead. The House didn't pass a bill. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of Filing Application: JUly 16, 2013 To Whom It May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are: Ronald Joseph Knickerbocker The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 830 Main St. Red Bluff, CA 96080 Type of license(s) Applied for: 41- ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE Publish: July 25, August 1 & 8, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013000237 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A: Blue Rock Farms 530-624-5137, 3700 Vadney Ave., Vina, CA 96092 B: Blue Rock Management 530624-5137, 3700 Vadney Ave., Vina, CA 96092 Dennis Thrasher 3700 Vadney Ave. Vina, CA 96092 Mary Beth Thrasher 3700 Vadney Ave. Vina, CA 96092 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/06/1993 This business is conducted by: husband & wife S/By: Dennis Thrasher Dennis Thrasher S/By: Mary Beth Thrasher Mary Beth Thrasher This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 7/9/2013 BEVERLY ROSS Tehama County Clerk & Recorder Publish: July 18, 25, Aug 1 & 8 2013 LEGAL NOTICE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF TEHAMA PETITION OF: Lisa L. Escobar LEGAL NOTICE A vacancy on the Board of Directors of the Corning Healthcare District has occurred due to a member resignation. We are accepting letters from interested persons regarding appointment to the Board. To be eligible you must be a registered voter and resident of the healthcare district. Applicants need to submit their request for consideration and resume to the Corning Healthcare District. All materials must be submitted to the physical office no later than 3:30 pm Wednesday August 7th, 2013. Physical address is 275 Solano Street Suite 103 Corning California. Mailing address is PO Box 996 Corning CA 96021. Publish: July 20, 23, 25, 27, 30 & August 1, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013000227 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Southern Swagger Wrap Girls, Southern Swagger 530 202-2264, 11565 Wilder Road, Red Bluff, CA 96080 Luci Hawes 11565 Wilder Road Red Bluff, CA 96080 The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 6/24/2013 This business is conducted by: an individual S/By: Luci Hawes Luci Hawes This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Tehama County on 6/27/2013 BEVERLY ROSS Tehama County Clerk & Recorder Publish: July 11, 18, 25 & August 1, 2013 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Tehama County Local Agency Formation Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 2:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as FOR CHANGE OF NAME may be heard, in Board of SuperCASE NUMBER: 68125 visors Chambers, Administra______________________/ tion Building, 727 Oak Street, TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Red Bluff, California, on the folPetitioner, Lisa L. Escobar filed a lowing matters: petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: 1. Tehama County LAFCo Draft Lisa Escobar-Budke to Lisa Budget Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Litsinger-Escobar THE COURT ORDERS that all per- 2. Tehama County LAFCo Final sons interested in this matter Budget Fiscal Year 2013-2014 shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to All interested persons are invitshow cause, if any, why the peti- ed to attend and be heard. tion for change of name should Please be advised that if you not be granted. Any person ob- challenge the above-entitled jecting to the name changes de- matter in court, you may be limscribed above must file a writ- ited to raising only those issues ten objection that includes the you or someone else raised at reasons for the objections at the public hearing described in least two court days before the this notice, or in written corrematter is scheduled to be heard spondence delivered at or prior and must appear at the hearing to the public hearing to the to show why the petition should Tehama County Local Agency not be granted. If no written ob- Formation Commission, 444 Oak jection is timely filed, the court Street, Courthouse Annex, Room may grant the petition without a I, Red Bluff, California 96080. hearing. NOTICE OF SEAN M. 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