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By SEAN KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
"To keep this post office open one additional hour a day would be most generous. What you are asking for is going far beyond what we can offer—beyond our guidelines for running this type of business."
That is what Thomas Leavey of the Charlottesville Post Office told patrons of the Woodville Post Office here Tuesday night.
More than 75 persons crowded into the Sunday School room of the Woodville Baptist Church to meet with Leavey, sectional center manager in Charlottesville, and William Hunt, who is director of customer services there.
Unlike other post offices in Rappahannock County, Woodville is a contract office. That is, Mrs. Ruth Orange, the postmaster, contracts yearly with the post office to provide the service. This year the Post Office is paying her $3,286, according to Hunt. Out of that she must pay the rent on the building and also pay for the utilities. What is left over is her salary.
In past years Mrs. Orange had kept the office open from 7:30 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon. Several months ago. when her contract was up for renewal, the post office told her that they would not raise her pay,
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