Island Packet Online: New post office continues... -
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Published on: 1/25/2003
Last Visited: 1/26/2003
Gephart, Estill postmaster Kelvin Gordon and Julie Smith, postmaster in Walthourville, Ga., were called in after Bluffton postmaster Jonathan Murray was placed on administrative leave Jan. 10. following the discovery of dumped mail behind the facility in late December.
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Supervisors at the Bluffton post office now check each piece of mail carriers set aside to be thrown away, Gordon said Friday.Bulk mail is thrown away if it has the wrong address and the sender hasn't paid for return service.First-class mail is never thrown away, he said.
Additional carriers have been added to long rural routes to help overburdened primary carriers, and supervisors are in the process of verifying every customer's address by accompanying each carrier on his or her route, Gordon said.
"The goal is to have all the carriers off the street and back here by 5 p.m," he said.
The Bluffton post office has 22 routes and about 40 employees, including 19 contract employees who aren't employees of the U.S. Postal Service.The post office delivers mail to about 13,000 homes and businesses.
Two contract employees were fired and one rural carrier was suspended following the mailing dumping incident.
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Many of the problems at the post office are caused by overcrowding in the mail sorting area and should be solved when the new $3.5 million facility in Bluffton Village opens next month, Gordon said.
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