I had a recent comment on one of my older blogs about the Queen Creek Post office. It appears to be from Jeff Brown of the Town Council of Queen Creek. I wanted to share it with all.
New post office update (11/13/08)
Q: I have heard the new Post Office has been put on hold or canceled entirely due to budget issues with the Federal Government. Is this true?
A: No. This is not true. The United States Postal Service has actually just closed the bidding process for contractors and will be selecting a contractor very soon. The new post office is planned for construction on land recently deeded by the Town to the Postal Service. This property is located on the north side of the Queen Creek Wash and west side of the Ellsworth Loop Road (west of the Development Services Building). The Postal Service still maintains that their Fall 2009 opening date is still achievable for the approximately 26,000-square-foot building.
Regards, Jeff Brown Town Council Member - Town of Queen Creek
Thanks Jeff for your comment.
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http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/132494
Plans submitted for new Q.C. post office
Amanda Keim, Tribune December 14, 2008 - 7:00PM
Queen Creek is one step closer to having a new post office.
The U.S. Postal Service submitted plans for a new 20,140-square-foot facility to Queen Creek on Thursday, according to officials from the town and Postal Service.
The Postal Service acquired a 4.3-acre parcel for the facility on Ellsworth Loop Road south of Ocotillo Road in June from the town. The building will replace the current 4,400-square-foot post office nearby on Ellsworth Road and a 12,000 square foot carrier annex on Ocotillo Road east of Ellsworth, said Postal Service spokesman Peter Hass.
The town staff now needs to review and approve the post office’s plans, said town spokeswoman Marnie Schubert.
Designs for the exterior of the building also need to be finalized, Hass said.
“We’re going to start (construction) sometime after the first of the year and expect to be open for business before the end of the year of 2009,” Hass said.
Thanks to recent booming growth in the town and surrounding unincorporated areas, Queen Creek’s small post office has more than three times the customers today than it did five years ago. It served 10,000 mail delivery locations in October 2003 compared with 31,000 today, Hass said.
The new facility also means all of Queen Creek’s postal personnel will work under the same roof for the first time, he said.
“I think that’s probably, among other things, more efficient for us,” he said.
Currently, post office boxes and retail services are housed at the main office, while mail is sorted and packed into delivery trucks at the annex, he said.
Queen Creek’s post office employs about 80 people.
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