"They were just waiting, I believe, for my contract to finish up before announcing that," said Post Mistress Sandra Norris.
Norris's 3-year contract is up at the end of the month. She's not renewing it for personal reasons but said she will deeply miss the day to day interactions and handing out mail from these antique lock boxes.
Norris: "You become familiar with the names on each box and then you become familiar with the faces that go with the name."
Local historians said this post office has moved at least five times throughout the city until it finally settled here in the mid-1920s. Since then the United States Postal Service has tried closing it down several times claiming it was an unsafe structure and that it was not making any money. But the post office survived. Currently it is making some money through stamp sales, money orders and box rentals.
"It just makes for a really nice break in the middle of the day to walk down or drive down with the dog and get mail and say 'Hi' to whosever's here," said resident Chris Lynch.
That's why most people come here ... squeezing into this little 10x12 foot space and why so many are willing to fight to keep it open. Currently their hopes lie with valley congressman Devin Nunes whose office tells Action News U.S.P.S. could reverse its decision to close this building before the Friday deadline.
