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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 826818, member: 19065&quot;]<span style="color: Navy">I like the idea that the USPS be broadened to offer more services</span> but seriously they&#039;d start charging more because those branches would require more overhead, costs for security for insured items on the premises and increased staff to deal with new services. Products from the Mint would need to be strictly rolled out for fairness of availability and packaged so that consumers couldn&#039;t cherry-pick in person. The majority of PO branches under serve their community and often lend more confusion rather than education of the public regarding shipping etiquette, procedure, and general services available. <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">&nbsp;</span><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Anything to get the Mint closer to and more in touch with the customer might be a good solution for better service</span> but it will bring with it new costs and issues. Would collectors start standing in overnight lines awaiting the newest coins to roll out? Would people be more individually at risk of thefts by crooks watching you leave the PO with your box of AGEs and AGBs, etc? Right now you can leave the PO with an anonymous box filled with PMs and no one likely knows what you have nor attempts to rob you. If you walk out with a Mint bag and new products that could be a risk.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Secure locations like banks or at least their main branches might be an good local option for the Mint to set up or distribute new products.</span> Distribution of coins to retail kiosks seems like a problem as well but I do wish there were more local options like the kiosk in Union Station DC, especially in urban areas that could service the public more and put more of a public face on the Mint. Seems it would help the hobby and collectors could save on shipping which always seems an issue amongst collectors, even if they look the other way buying gas and spending time to drive a long way to their nearest Mint retail location.<span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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