USPS employee using BOE placard daily
Observed by PlacardWatcher on Thu, Mar 13 2008
Updated below...
Every weekday morning, a uniformed USPS driver swaps his personal car for a postal delivery truck, puts up the BOE placard on the dashboard of his now-parked car, and drives off in his postal delivery truck presumably on his daily route. There are no BOE offices anywhere near the post office where he works (which is catty corner from where he parks his car every day). He recently yelled at a motorcyclist to move because the motorcyclist was in "his spot."
!UPDATE!
I emailed the BOE last Thursday to report this apparent BOE placard violation and a nice woman started an investigation. I am happy to report that we just spoke, and the parking placard was in fact "valid" but the BOE revoked it due to abuse (it was obviously being misused). The car now has a fake-looking USPS "official business" placard up, as do several other cars pakred nearby. I am going to pursue this with the local USPS station and see what comes. But heck, one small victory!
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Posted on Wed, Mar 19 2008 at 08:44 PM
Way to go, you busted someone with a Valid Permit. Awesome! You should be a detective.
What you people don't get is that the "permit" is not what lets people park where they do. The permit is just a way of identifying a city, or other, employee. The traffic agent/cop, then just uses their discression when deciding if they should summons the car, or not. The permit is used because normally only 1 is issued per person, and you have to be a current employee.
The PBA card used to be the old way. But now cops get 10+ cards a year, to hand out to anyone. Not to mention all the ones that Community Police units hand out. AND you can even buy them off eBay! This is why cops don't respect a PBA card anymore, but the permit holds a little more weight.
Posted on Thu, Mar 20 2008 at 03:18 PM
It gets even a bit better, well sort of. I noticed today and yesterday that all of the cars parked there have stopped putting up placards (including USPS placards). I found this curious, until I noticed that due to construction (destruction) of the building (see pic above), all parking regulation street signs have been removed due to placement of scaffolding. Therefore, it appears that anyone can park on two sides of the block without any permits, any payment, etc. So, in essence, this dude misused a permit and got it taken away when he never needed to use a permit (of any kind) in the first place. I am wondering if it is worth a 311 call to notify the city that all parking signs have apparently been removed due to installation of scaffolding and have not been replaced. Thoughts?
Posted on Sun, Mar 30 2008 at 04:07 PM
Question, Who do you notify for missing or needed signs? 311 probably won't do much, but what agancy is in charge of it? DOT?
Posted on Mon, Apr 07 2008 at 12:15 PM
DOT is responsible for signage.
Posted on Tue, Apr 08 2008 at 03:12 PM
Is there a direct number for DOT? The old number is disconnected, and all 311 does is forward it into oblivion.
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