It's not clear that the Enquirer and News published these photos, although a humorous story on June 3, 1981, by Assistant City Editor Dick Lovell offers a clue for why they were taken. The story recounts how a line of post office patrons, frustrated by slow service, staged a mini-protest by shouting "we want service" in unison, which apparently succeeded in bringing more clerks to the counter. The story then documents the lack of postal substations in Battle Creek.