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Vicki White-Lawrence
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 04:53 pm |
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| Thanks, James! Keep me posted and I'll see what I can do.
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JamesAttaway
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 04:57 pm |
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Hello everybody,
I have booked Stokesdale United Methodist Church, For the meeting about a new postal facility. TIME: 1PM. Saturday 7/28/07
The church is located downtown across from the post office.
Leave your forum identity (if you have one) at the door.
This meeting is open to all. This meeting is a community meeting that includes Rockingham users of the Post Office. Please post any topics for discussion either here or e-mail to:
jpattaway@bellsouth.net this way I can work on an agenda.
Thanks,
James Attaway
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Possumhund
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 05:55 pm |
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I'll be there and bring some copies of the original draft of the petition. We may want to rethink how/who we are making the appeal to (congress people vs. USPS) and there may be other revisions required. We'll need to decide on some dates to setup to gather petitions. I'll try to get some other Rockingham folks up there as well. Are there any specials rules/laws about how petitions must be handled to be valid, i.e. chain of custody, etc.? Can more than one copy of the petition exist so that they can all be joined together for submission? On days when we setup to gather signatures it would be nice to have several pairs of volunteers at each location so no one has to work more than 2 or 3 hours in a row; I know from personal experience with other organizations that a full day of sitting out in the sun on concrete can be a miserable experience. That's all I can think of now. Who else out there has some thoughts on this? Thanks, James, for making the arrangements with the SUMC.
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JamesAttaway
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 06:06 pm |
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Possumhund wrote: I'll be there and bring some copies of the original draft of the petition. We may want to rethink how/who we are making the appeal to (congress people vs. USPS) and there may be other revisions required. We'll need to decide on some dates to setup to gather petitions. I'll try to get some other Rockingham folks up there as well. Are there any specials rules/laws about how petitions must be handled to be valid, i.e. chain of custody, etc.? Can more than one copy of the petition exist so that they can all be joined together for submission? On days when we setup to gather signatures it would be nice to have several pairs of volunteers at each location so no one has to work more than 2 or 3 hours in a row; I know from personal experience with other organizations that a full day of sitting out in the sun on concrete can be a miserable experience. That's all I can think of now. Who else out there has some thoughts on this? Thanks, James, for making the arrangements with the SUMC.
Thanks Possum for your Help and support!
Jim do you know how legal this petition has to be but does it just need to be sort of informal, Tweety do you have any expertise in this area?
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 06:21 pm |
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| James Attaway you are a very impressive individual. You are certainly listening to what the people want in Stokesdale and a real go getter. You along with others here on the forum are taking charge and seeing that you guys get a new post-office. You are a extra ordinary fine individual that truely defines leadership, someone to look up to. I hope you guys win and get your post-office.
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Posted: Jul 27th, 2007 01:24 am |
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JamesAttaway
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Posted: Jul 27th, 2007 01:46 am |
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Tweety,
Thanks for all your effort and support. I think we might just make a difference.
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Jim Flynt
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Posted: Jul 27th, 2007 02:17 am |
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| Edited by poster. Last edited on Aug 5th, 2007 12:26 am by Jim Flynt
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macca
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Posted: Jul 28th, 2007 10:31 pm |
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| How did the meeting go today?
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JamesAttaway
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Posted: Jul 28th, 2007 11:48 pm |
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Macca I ll write up a summary and post it Jim was elected to take up his idea of placing the petition with merchants.
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Possumhund
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Posted: Jul 29th, 2007 12:27 am |
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Thanks Jim, for doing that! I can save you one stop; David at Bi-Rite said we could set up at the intersection of 158 & 65, out of his business traffic at he edge of the parking lot. He would like to be notified of the date when we'll be doing this in advance.
I apologize for missing the meeting today. I came back to the house, after my morning appointment with Bill Pegg, sat down in the recliner with my laptop to visit my favorite website and was promptly stricken with "FatPappy" disease (I went to sleep). Slept plumb through our meeting.
"Course, that may be a good thing. I find, after I've passed the half century point in my years, that if there's one trait of mine that's becoming more childlike- I get cranky when I don't have my nap!
Let me know what I need to do to help.
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JamesAttaway
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Posted: Jul 29th, 2007 06:23 pm |
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SUMMARY OF POST OFFICE MEETING
7/28/07
- Name group - Stokesdale Postal Facilities Group (SPFG)
- Pick Group Leader - James Attaway
- Pick County leaders - Guilford- Thearon Hooks Rockingham Tim Richardson
- SPFG Mailing address - P.O. Box 712 Stokesdale, 27357
- A mission statement and set of goals are being drafted
- A cover letter and petition format will be drafted
- Jim Flynt was named to coordinate petitions at merchants
- Set up dates and places for petition signing (via electronic means )
- Solicit members for SPFG (encourage participation in group)
- Plan of Attack- letters, e-mail and phone calls to Congress (petition)
Determine 2nd meeting by electronic means - Remind everyone is welcome to join SPFG i.e. Any postal Patron of Stokesdale P.O.
- Keep Stokesdale Town Council in Loop as well as Postal Officials.
- Adjournment
- Maintain good media relations
Thanks to every one for your support! we can accomplish our mission! Please feel free to contact me @ Jpattaway@bellsouth.net or by phone.
Last edited on Jul 29th, 2007 07:52 pm by JamesAttaway
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Posted: Jul 29th, 2007 09:27 pm |
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| Thanks for the recap, James. We'll be glad to help publicize this effort -- let us know if there's anything we can do beyond that.
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Posted: Jul 30th, 2007 07:41 pm |
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JamesAttaway
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Posted: Jul 31st, 2007 07:26 am |
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Stokesdale Postal Facility Group
P.O. BOX 712
Stokesdale N.C. 27357
Mission Statement
It is the mission of the Stokesdale Postal Facility Group to contact United States Postal Officials and Congressional Members on behalf of the Postal patrons of Stokesdale, North Carolina in an effort to acquire a new Postal facility that is safe and customer friendly.
Goals
1. Acquire a new Postal Facility for Stokesdale
2. Request inspection of the current Postal Facility by Congressional Members
3. Draft a postal patron petition for signitures requesting a new U. S. Postal Facility in Stokesdale
4. Encourage individual Postal Patrons to contact Postal Officials and Congressional Members
5. Procure Group membership
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