Sadsburyville To Get A New Post Office

By Nancy Scott, Special to The Inquirer
Posted: November 30, 1986

The woodwork that frames the service window is beautifully carved, and the mailboxes that line the wall are made of ornately crafted metal. But Sadsburyville has outgrown the old-fashioned post office that it rents in a house, and the village will be getting a modern building.

"We're kind of an antique-type post office," said Sadsburyville Postmaster Anne Garrett. "The boxes and window are gorgeous."

But most of the post office's 398 mailboxes are occupied, and there is no room to expand. The post office provides mailboxes for 310 households in Sadsburyville.

The U.S. Postal Service has advertised for bids for a half-acre for a new post office near the current office along Route 30 in Sadsbury Township. The current office is a room that the Postal Service rents.

The current office is 683 square feet, according to Carol Larson, a postal official in the agency's Cherry Hill office. The new office would be 928 square feet and have 616 mailboxes.

Bids for the land will close Wednesday.

Officials in the agency's real estate office will review and investigate the bids. A site will be selected and the community will be notified and given a chance to comment on the decision.

Larson said that no amount had been set for the purchase of the land or for construction of the building.

"Construction probably won't begin for another year," Larson said.

"I'm excited about having a new post office," Garrett said. "It will be nice to work in a modern building."

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