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cramped, outdated one in Amissville.
Rath surmises, “I always thought I would like to be in a larger office than this. But then once J got into the smaller offices, you really get to do a whole lot more. You get to do everything. You work the mail. You wait on customers. And you still do your administrative duties. Every day is different.”
And hope is on the horizon. The county has recently purchased land for the new post office site. Rath says, “The last e-mail I got concerning it was that the purchase was final. They had closed the deal to purchase the land.”
The next step is to find the project manager who will consider all the bids and decide on a contractor. After the ground breaking, the new post office could be constructed in 120 days, as long as no major problems arise.
P.O. Boxes
Recently* there was a long waiting list for post office boxes in Amissville. But then considerable turnover freed up boxes for people desiring them.
Rath says, “It takes maybe a month on a waiting list to get a box. There are a lot of six month rentals now, where it used to be mostly for a year. I think more people are coming in and they just rent the box for a temporary basis.”
“There are conveniences to a post office box. The fact that your mail is secure. If you go out of town for just a couple of days, your mail can stay in your post office box and nobody’s going to bother it. You don’t have to worry about vandals coming along and knocking your curb box down, which they do a lot.”
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