“Apparently, by the end of October, this post office will not exist anymore,” she declared.
That news is not sitting well with residents in this town of 5,000.
That includes Mayor Mark Kolbinger.
“It’s frustrating and it’s sad,” he explains. “Part of a post office is your city’s identity. We’re doing business expansion in our business park, and imagine someone driving the park saying, ‘Where’s your post office?’”
The post office’s current location on First Street was dedicated in 1987.
Kolbinger says for decades, the U.S. Postal Service has leased the space from several parties, the most recent being the owner of a convenience store nearby.
But that lease runs out in October, and the building is already partly demolished to make way for a new retail space.
“The post office has known for over three years that this lease was going to end in October,” Kolbinger says. “They’ve done nothing to determine where the new post office is going to be.”
