There was a great celebration on Monday in the Marin County community of Bolinas as mail was being delivered to their town again, thanks to one man’s persistence and just a touch of public shaming.
On Feb. 4, 2023, the Bolinas post office, which had operated in a building on Brighton Avenue for 60 years, shut down over a lease dispute with the property owner, planning never to return. After that, residents had to make a 40-minute round-trip trek to another town to pick up their mail.
“We’re a small town,” said resident John Borg. ”We have no mayor, we have no city attorney. We’re just, like, regular people trying to figure this out.”…