North Carolina’s congressional delegation celebrated a local win in the Triangle Thursday. Through bipartisan advocacy, the Research Triangle Park now has door-to-door mail delivery service from the U.S. Postal Service.
Andrew Holton became the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Research Triangle Foundation last fall. Holton said when he took the role, he had to ask himself:
“Why do we not have mail in RTP? And the answer is fairly simple. We were a rural area that evolved pretty quickly to be this office park,” Holton said. “Infrastructure came in, but for a while we could exist very happily having a centralized post office around which the companies orbited.”
“But we’ve grown over the last 65 years,” Holton added. “We now represent 385 companies, 55,000 employees, and over 7,000 acres of land.”
Many of those companies were no longer happy receiving all of their packages from P.O. boxes at a central post office.
