The US Postal Service is making arrangements to get mail to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina.
Officials are urging the evacuees to file change-of-address cards listing their shelter's address. The plan could help reunite family members sent to shelters in various cities.
A change of address can be filed by telephone at 1-800 ASK-USPS.
People who believe they may have family members at the Houston Astrodome can address their mail to the named individual at "General Delivery Houston, Texas 77230." Similar arrangements are being made for major shelters set up for people evacuated to other areas of the U-S.
But this is what stuck out...
The district manager for the U-S Postal Service in Houston says the agency's headquarters staff began putting the plan together before Hurricane Katrina hit last weekend.
Mail for much of Louisiana has been forwarded to Houston.
One of the most maligned agencies of the Federal Government was planning before Katrina for refugees. So why were other federal agencies so surprised?
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE coordinate something in your area, offering a place to live for our brothers and sisters in the union.
We have APWU Families here in my local offering housing and each of us, across the country, can do the same thing.
Lisa Albu,VP
Palm Beach Area Local
The USPS has been a separate entity for a while and the Shrubbery couldn't appoint any of his worthless friends to jobs there.