Village Post Office Shouldn't Be Closed

As of Thursday, March 31, 2011

The U.S. Postal Service is currently proposing consolidation of the Pinehurst village station into the Pinehurst main office.

Kim Williams, the officer in charge in Pinehurst, has issued a postal customer questionnaire to all renters of the village post office boxes. Written answers to the questionnaire, as well as personal comments, are to be returned by April 25, to the Pinehurst main office, or sent to Operations Support, Room 210, 2901 Scott Futrell Drive, Charlotte, NC 28228-9909.

It is very disturbing to read that the Postal Service is trying again to close the Pinehurst village station. The village of Pinehurst is a designated National Historic location. The village post office station is an intrinsic occupant of this prestigious designation given by a U.S. government agency. The building and its intended function is a strong contributor to this program of National Historical Preservation. In addition, the loss of our village post office would be a setback for all of our present and future village businesses!

Finally, removing this post office would hurt the ambience and certainly be a blemish to the historical designation of our beautiful village.

Tom and Nancy Shannon

Pinehurst

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DaveyNC 2 years, 1 month ago

Demands like this are why the PO is losing billions a year. Close it. In fact, consolidate the Aberdeen, Pinehurst and S Pines POs into one central PO.

mymindwanders 2 years, 1 month ago

its amazing how easy it is to say "we all should tighten our belts" until we become part of the all.

blessherheart 2 years, 1 month ago

I do not want to see it closed but it is so true about not wanting to suffer the cuts if it pertains to us.

buddysmith 2 years, 1 month ago

i agree with daveync, consolidate all three post offices into one delivery area. there really is no need for 4 post offices within such closes proximity to each other. really these days, unless you have a post office box, there is no need to go to the post office. you can pretty much do everything online,print postage, order priority boxes, even schedule pickup at your home. you can also buy stamps. just because a buliding, which happens to be a post office, is within a desgnated historic district, is no reason to save it. close the post office and make some kind of museum out of the building.

DaveyNC 2 years, 1 month ago

Good luck with that, but you are right. In fact, with a population of what, 80,000 or so, I say there is no reason to have separate municipalities. Roll 'em all up into one county level government and be done with it.

The only reason they remain separate is so that various egos can remain properly stroked.