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January 16th, 2009
Rural post offices are special places. That's the message Katie at South Dakota Magazine Buy Maxalt Without Prescription, presented yesterday.
While telling a story about how the postmaster in one small town successfully delivered a letter addressed only with "Under the Water Tower in St. Lawrence", buy Maxalt from mexico, Cod online Maxalt, Katie identifies one of the special qualities of rural communities: people (including post masters) know each other and try to help each other out - even when we forget things like addresses.
Ray Oldenburg (who I wrote about yesterday) believes rural post offices are special for another reason: they are informal gather places where community is built. In his words, they are "third places."
I've never felt that post offices meet the criteria for being "third places." That said, Maxalt to buy, Buy Maxalt online without a prescription, I think older people probably look at post offices differently.
Since reading Oldenburg's The Great Good Place, fast shipping Maxalt, Online buying Maxalt hcl, I've tried to watch our local post office from my office, just across the street. I've noticed that older residents do tend to stop for short conversations -- meeting the main criteria for a third place. Post offices are also easily accessible and people from all walks of life meet there, where to buy Maxalt. Maxalt in india, So, we can check a few more criteria off the list that create third places. But to me, Maxalt in mexico, Purchase Maxalt, post offices just doesn't have the feel that I want a third place to have.
Most likely, post offices once served as more effective third places than they do today, buy Maxalt from canada, Maxalt prescriptions, hence we see older generations still using them as places for conversation.
But I think it also points to another of Oldenburg's key arguments: we've lost many of our third places; and with them we've lost much of our sense of community. I hope that we haven't lost so many of them, over the counter Maxalt, Buy Maxalt online with no prescription, however, that our postmasters stop delivering mail when they don't include proper addresses.
Other posts about post offices and third places:
- "Post Offices, Maxalt from canadian pharmacy, Order Maxalt from United States pharmacy, information, and participation" at the Neighborhoods blog
- "The Dedication of a Small Town Postmaster" at South Dakota Magazine
- List of characteristics of third places - ReImagine Rural
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