sxnahm@ubvax.UUCP (Stephen Nahm) (05/22/85)
I saw this article in a local newspaper.
Land O'Lakes, Fla. (UPI) - Neither rain nor sleet nor gloom
of night will stop postal workers from doing their duty. But nudity
is another problem altogether.
The "clothing optional" policy of a 239-unit condominium
community has stopped mail delivery to the Paradise Lakes Resort
for more than a year.
"My employees are entitled to work under reasonable
conditions, and I think that their feelings must must be
considered," Postmaster Henry Thompson said yesterday.
"I can't compel a carrier to do something against their
principles," he said, but added he had never asked his 22
carriers to make deliveries to the nudist resort north of Tampa.
Resort residents must don clothes and drive to post offices
at Land O'Lakes or nearby Lutz to get their mail because 168
cluster mailboxes remain unused on the resort's mail drive.
Thompson said he approved the location of the cluster boxes
in March 1984, but changed his mind when he revisited the resort
last spring.
"Members came up to me in the 'clothes-optional' method,"
Thompson said. "As I was getting ready to leave, I saw naked
people washing their cars and mowing the lawns. I told the
manager, 'We got a problem. We may have to relocate these boxes.'"
Postal Service officials suggested the boxes be moved
outside the gate, or residents receive mail in bulk and
distribute it themselves.
The nudists refused.
"This whole thing is crazy," said Robert Page, general
counsel for the American Sunbathing Association.
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Steve Nahm
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