Since the subject of places and post offices has come up I wonder if
anyone has any information on a postal service policy which
purportedly mandated the simplification of post office names.
Supposedly the postal service decreed that "unnecessary" Hs  and
other unneeded letters be dropped from post office names -- so
Whallonsburgh because Whallonsburg, Willsborough became Willsboro,
Plattsburgh became Plattsburg, etc.  Does anyone have any information
on this subject?


Robert J. Hammerslag
ECHO - Essex Community Heritage Organization,  Essex, New York 12936
518-963-7088
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