Dear Editor:

Many of us in Ridgway are forced to use a post office box, either because of the ¼ mile delivery rule or for some other reason.

This causes problems for us because the Post Office makes its address database available to commercial businesses (for example: UPS, FedEx and Verizon) so they can verify an address as being entered correctly when we order or ship something from an online website. The issue with that is the Post Office database only has our P.O. box in it and not our physica...