Mail delivery halted in west side neighborhood

Mail delivery halted in west side neighborhood

Mail delivery has been halted since April to a neighborhood on the west side of Owensboro, and residents have been unsuccessful in their attempts to get an answer as to when it will resume.

What the USPS shutdown of encoding centers reveals about the quiet digitization of logistics

Tension: The mail still feels personal—handwriting, birthday envelopes, jury summons—yet its last fragile human checkpoints are vanishing behind machine vision that never blinks and never wonders. Noise: Corporate memos praise “modernization,” budget briefs chant “cost-to-deliver,” and pundits treat postal labor like a line item, muting the quieter truth that community memory often travels in the margins automation discards. Direct Message: When…