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Saturday, March 14, 2009 | 4:06 p.m.
Several Sun City Summerlin residents are threatening to protest in their golf carts outside the Longs Drugs store if its post office is shuttered at the end of the month.
“If necessary we would go and protest in front of the story,” said resident Brenda Izen. “I will remove all of my prescriptions from there.”
“I will sit there with my golf cart and my package that I need to mail,” said Sally Bogolub, who circulated a petition recently with Izen to stop the closure of the community’s only post office at the Longs Drugs at 9430 Del Webb Blvd.
When CVS, which bought out Longs Drugs last year, converts the store, it will not continue the contract with the U.S. Postal Service branch. The change is expected to come this summer. CVS representatives could not be reached for comment.
Izen and Bogolub aren’t the only ones who are upset. About 500 residents signed the petition imploring CVS to keep the small office open.
Sun City Summerlin is a 55-plus golf course community with 7,779 homes and about 14,000 residents. For many, the post office at Longs is within walking distance or a short golf-cart ride from their home.
“If they do close, I would want the store boycotted, that’s how strongly I feel,” said Izen. “And I feel there are others who would do this. They won’t see me in there.”
Izen and Bogolub carried the petition door-to-door and to Sun City clubs for about two weeks. Izen said she mailed it to CVS headquarters in Rhode Island on March 3. She has not yet received a response.
“There are thousands who can’t drive anymore, so they rely on their golf carts to get to places,” she said.
The main post office at North Town Center Drive is two to three miles outside the community. There is a PostNet, which provides package shipping, farther down on Lake Mead Boulevard.
Becky Bosshart can be reached at 990-7748 or becky.bosshart@hbcpub.com.
People have a right to their post office. Just because one company went broke while it housed one is no reason not to force someone else to house one. How dare they act like it's their building. How can we expect the Post Office to build their own building. This is a new AmeriKa, we should just pass a law and make them have a post office there. In fact they should have one at the pro shop also and make it even easier for people who want.
I have lived near Sun City for 18 years now and these senior citizens of Sun City need to grow up. They ride these damn golf carts in business's outside of Sun City as if the owned Las Vegas. Go to any business on Lake Mead and Hills Center and you will find these nit wits and their golf carts impeding traffic,turning in front of other vechiles and making ass's of themselves just because they think they have the right, when in fact they are not even in Sun City. Spoiled rotten,self entitled,miserable old blow hards. By the way I am sixty-one yeras old so I can say the things I say. I wonder how many other retired people take what life gives them and makes the best of it? It seems as though Sun City residents think they are above everyone else.
A reader just informed me that the PostNet at Del Webb and Rampart is closed. I couldn't confirm that, but I did find the one at 2211 N. Rampart Blvd., at Lake Mead Boulevard. Its number is 228-7678. The reader also mentioned that there is a post office inside the Albertsons at Cheyenne and Rampart. Thanks to Jon Dorsey for checking that out!
I just spoke to Councilman David Steinman, who represents Summerlin for ward 4, and he said that both he and Mayor Oscar Goodman have sent letters to CVS - no reply. A planning commissioner has taken this issue on with the corporate headquarters. We'll see where that goes.
Ward 4 candidate Yvonne Karim made some comments at a Wednesday night forum in Sun City that the post office will be staying open. Steinman said he doesn't know where she's getting her information.
Steinman: "I think CVS will make a huge mistake if they don't keep it (the post office), because some of our people have trouble traveling to the post office branch three miles away. Every time they walk into Longs drug store, most of them purchase something before they get out of there. I don't think CVS understands the magnitude of the situation here."
The new signs for the Longs (changing the store to CVS) were recently approved.
Unfortunately, most of the residents of Sun City are the wrong color. If they were the same demographics as the folks on D Street, they would be getting the help of Al Sharpton and could claim that they were being descriminated against. Then the RJ would cover this story, not the Sun.