Chesapeake senior says broken mailbox has left neighbors without mail delivery

When Chesapeake resident Constance Howard noticed glass and debris scattered around her neighborhood mailbox in early September, she said she quickly learned a car had hit the cluster mailbox serving neighbors on Wickford Drive.

Nearly two months later, Howard says the mailbox still has not been repaired, forcing her and some of her neighbors to pick up their mail at the post office on Battlefield Boulevard instead of receiving deliveries in their neighborhood.

“I have to go to the post office and pick my mail up just about every other day,” Howard said. “And that’s too much on me. I’m an 80-year-old lady. It’s really bothering me. I had knee surgery and it’s bothering me getting in and out of my vehicle.”…

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