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On my way up to Kingston yesterday, I pulled off at the Blakeslee post office on Rt. 115. The painted mail box on the side of the building turned out to be drop box for old flags, something I had never before seen. In Kingston, workers were out in front of the big post office there, protesting closings in the Wilkes-Barre area. I wanted to check that out but the post office had closed by the time I finished the errand that had taken me to Kingston.