A Kitsap County Political Grudge Match
Local residents decry the political renaming of the Sidney post office, arguing it’s a scheme to fire a veteran and confuse the mail.
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The truth about the change of the name of the Sidney post office is that it was simply a political job to take the position of postmaster away from A. M. Robinson, an old soldier known and respected throughout Kitsap County, and to give it to a man who is now a Populist. The jobbers who were opposed to him evolved the scheme of having the name of the office changed, which necessitated the issuing of a new commission. The inconvenience of the present name is manifest. If a man has a deed or mortgage to be filed at the county seat in Sidney, it is most likely to go to Port Orchard proper, formerly Charleston, and lie there until it is sent to the dead letter office.
“It is a dangerous mistake and an injustice to the citizens of Kitsap County.”
Post office politics were the original 'D.C. drama.' The struggle between established names (Sidney) and administrative rebrands (Port Orchard) illustrates how civic identity is often caught in the crossfire of bureaucratic power plays.
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