PROGRESS!

FIRST:
Howard Barbour telephoned Katherine Nash, Regional Director of the USPS in Seattle this morning. She is aware of our dilemma, and again emphasized the financial constraints facing the USPS. She was assured that we had a lot of community support and community finances to build or adapt an existing building for post office use. She once again assured us that a no decision has been made to close the Deer Harbor Post Office, BUT we are one of four post offices whose leases will expire within the year, and who are under scrutiny by the Postal Service because of lease status.

The Postal Closure Committee has met to consider the 4 post offices without leases. Nash did not know what the Committee had decided, but will pass along those findings to the Deer Harbor Committee as soon as they are available.

Nash was asked if she would meet with representatives from the Deer Harbor Committee in Seattle, or send a delegation to Deer Harbor. She said both were possible, and further that she would meet with us providing she was in town, on any date we choose.

SECOND
This afternoon, Kathy Young, Facilities Specialist for the Post Office, Seattle, contacted us and told us she would be visiting Orcas and would like to meet with the committee on Wednesday.