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being provided. But they would not compare those figures to any other post office. Not to Sperryville; not to Huntly; not to any of the comparable post offices in the area.
Although Leavey insisted that in the case of Woodville. the hours of service be strictly cost related to the amount of business, he again and again refused to disucss any other post office in the same terms.
After throwing out numbers that made no sense. Hunt finally said that at the current rate paid Mrs. Orange, it would cost the Post Office about $2,500 a year more to keep the office open an additional 2Vi hours a day.
By comparison, a regular postal employee has a starting salary of more than $10 an hour, Leavey noted.
James J. Kilpatrick pointed out that when compared to the post office’s annual income of $14 billion or so, “The additional cost here is so small as to be insignificantr”
"In the end it comes down to service,” said Robert Beattie of Woodville. “And right now you are getting a bigger bang for the buck here in Woodville than anywhere else. If you paid Mrs. Orange three times as much, you would still be getting a bigger bang for the buck here,” he added.
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