MAILBOX SEEMS UNLIKELY AT CENTER.Byline: Carol Rock Staff Writer VALENCIA - All Daryl Mendelson wants is a place to buy his groceries, leave his dry cleaning dry cleaning, process of cleaning fabrics without water. Special solvents and soaps are used so as not to harm fabrics and dyes that will not withstand the effects of ordinary soap and water. Dry cleaning began in France about the middle of the 19th cent. , get a cup of coffee and drop off his mail close to his Valencia home. He's got the first three in the North Park shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . But his request to have an old-fashioned mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). installed there keeps ending up in the dead letter office. ``These days, I don't want to put my mail out in the (home) mailbox to be picked up, and I would think having a mailbox for the convenience of the neighborhood would be good,'' he said. ``They have them in other shopping centers. There's one in Granary Square, right outside the market.'' Mendelson attempted to call Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Postmaster postmaster - The electronic mail contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET. Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail (RFC 822) requires each machine to have a "postmaster" address; usually it is Anita Plata, but to no avail. Management at the city's main post office contends that with 27 boxes in the Valencia delivery area, there are already plenty of mailboxes available for use. The expense of maintaining the familiar blue boxes is something else the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. considers before placing one in a shopping center. If the boxes are vandalized or hit by a car, environmental restrictions prevent on-the-spot repairs. Units must be removed and taken to a special facility for repair and repainting. ``We need to be careful not to install boxes where we think we don't need them,'' said Terri Bouffiou, a postal services spokeswoman. ``But we do want to make them available to the public.'' Bouffiou said the postal service doesn't have permission from the center management to install a postal drop box. Officials with The Newhall Land and Farming Company The Newhall Land and Farming Company is a land management company based in Valencia, California, United States. The company is responsible for the master community planning of Valencia, as well as the management of farm land elsewhere in the state. , which owns the center, said they have no objection to a box being installed there, as long as traffic and safety are considered before placement. The corner post box seems to be disappearing from the landscape, as people take their mail to work or drive through the drop-off zone at the closest post office. In addition, Bouffiou said that most new construction utilizes clustered mailboxes that include a locked box for collection of outgoing mail. Carol Rock, (661) 257-5252 carol.rock(at)dailynews.com |
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