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Post Office Opening Today – Update!

The 414 N 25th St post office is now open. They are celebrating inside with cookies for the taking.

Go check it out!

Update-  Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) issued this statement about reports that East End Post Office is now open:

“I am elated that the East End Post Office re-opened this morning. For more than one year, I have worked diligently, on both the local and federal level, on behalf of my constituents who rely on this post office location. Residents were left without a local, permanent, full-service postal location for far too long. I appreciate that, finally, the post office is open. I am optimistic that the remaining postal service issues in the 4th Congressional District will be addressed soon with continued collaborative efforts between my office and USPS.”

28 comments

BAF 05/21/2018 at 4:13 PM

Any images of the interior?

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Jeannie Casey Saxton 05/21/2018 at 4:16 PM

A surprise today for sure and the SADDEST grand reopening cookies just spread on a table ever. Ha.

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Emily Klinedinst 05/21/2018 at 6:37 PM

I’ll gladly forfeit my share of cookies if I can start getting mail at least 5 days a week

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Steven Summerville 05/21/2018 at 4:17 PM

Yessss

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Tom N Eileen 05/21/2018 at 4:20 PM

We liked the cookies and chilled bottled water…they were good! Nice to be able to personally check the PO box, too.

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Eric S. Huffstutler 05/21/2018 at 4:23 PM

Yeah, I would like to see the proposed changes like, removing the bullet proof glass, adding a lobby self-serve kiosk, having available a full stock of supplies in the lobby, stamp machine, updating the drab look in general, etc…

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Joshua Bilder 05/21/2018 at 8:20 PM

Thank you to The United States Postal Service, The Post Master General, Council Woman Newbille, Congresman McEachin, Mayor Stoney, the City of Richmond, CHPN.net, my contractors and the entire Church Hill Community. It took a long time and I know it’s been frustrating but it’s an improvement. I appreciate your patience during the renovations. Anyone who knows me, when I give my word I’m going to complete something I do no matter what challenges are ahead.

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Martha McConnell Looney 05/21/2018 at 9:08 PM

Let’s put on happy faces for our new neighbors. Friendly is what friendly does

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Chrissy Schlegel 05/21/2018 at 9:30 PM

But did they dust the blinds (finally)?

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Dana Bagby 05/21/2018 at 9:34 PM

I see they still have that depressing “glass” in the windows.

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SA Chaplin 05/22/2018 at 1:38 AM

@Emily Klinedinst – Hey Emily (well, I don’t mean to just pick on you –but you set this up): I look forward to two-day-a-week mail (and then package delivery on demand). A bit more 21st century IMO.

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Anita 05/22/2018 at 10:57 AM

We need this. many thanks.

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Rita Justice Austera 05/22/2018 at 3:28 PM

Wow. Finally!

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Eric S. Huffstutler 05/22/2018 at 7:32 PM

Why do they feel the need to still use the glass when no other station uses it? Maybe 20-30 years ago when the climate of the neighborhood was sketchy but with the East End, the restaurant there and another coming on the other side, and the neighborhood in general, I think it is unnecessary today – especially with advancements with surveillance cameras since then. It also gives the wrong impression to visitors making them think it is a high crime area. They are also inconvenient.

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Matt Conrad 05/22/2018 at 7:58 PM

Thank you, Josh Builder, for keeping your promise. I am eager to pay the P.O. a visit soon.

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Jason S 05/23/2018 at 12:07 AM

great news, love it!

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jean Mcdaniel 05/23/2018 at 7:52 AM

Hopefully the postal workers have been retrained or replaced. The ones working there before were rude, unresponsive and moved in slow motion. Questions were received with hostility ,annoyance and an attitude. Maybe that was the reason for the “security” glass.

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derk p 05/23/2018 at 8:37 AM

so are the employees any better? this was by far the WORST post office when i used to live in church hill. it was absolutely down right shocking. floored.

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Eric S. Huffstutler 05/23/2018 at 11:48 AM

That is funny. People threw tantrums to have this location reopened but hate everything about it, especially the employees.

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Minnie 05/23/2018 at 3:35 PM

It’s not a CHPN article without the Debbie Downers and the naysayers (even cookie critics!). Even people who no longer live in the neighborhood feel the need to chip in to complain about their own hypothetical scenarios.

I mean complaining about your own speculation is so bizarre I feel it deserves a price. Someone bake a cake for 18 and 19.

I expect their preemptive complaints about the icing and flavor any time now.

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jean Mcdaniel 05/24/2018 at 6:44 AM

Minnie, If you had ever been standing in line for 45 min. watching the interactions of what was “customer service” at this post office , you would understand. Then when your turn finally came up, the postal worker disappeared in the back for some unknown reason, returning 15 min. later to yell “NEXT”

Complaints about this Post office are and were JUSTIFIED. I would go to the main post office to do business and the workers were the opposite of those at 25th Street. What that meant was, helpful, courteous, efficient, knowledgeable! That is what I would like to have happen at 25th Street.

I want chocolate cake with chocolate icing.

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d p 05/26/2018 at 5:11 PM

minnie, they literally LOCKED THE DOORS because it was just before closing time AND REFUSED to let anyone out of the doors until it EVERYONE in line was serviced. it was absolutely appaling, dangerous, and not to mention ILLEGAL. on top of that, they have the worst attitudes so you know what you can go do with your cake

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Minnie 05/27/2018 at 11:19 AM

It Doesn’t change the fact that it has not happened yet, so you’re complaining about an unconfirmed problem.

The fact that you think it’s acceptable to tell me “I know what I can do with my cake” makes me think perhaps part of the problem was on your obviously emotionally unstable approach to things.

By the way, locking the door just before closing time is standard USPS practice and unless you’re allergic to sunlight I don’t see how that’s dangerous. It’s that kind of melodramatic interpretation of facts that makes you sound whiny and unreliable.

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Dubois2 05/27/2018 at 12:46 PM

Dear DP!
What did cake ever do to you?!?

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Dubois2 05/27/2018 at 3:59 PM

Minnie!!
You make good points!!

It’s just, many of us have a kind of lite postal-traumatic-stress disorder associated with that office. I was uniquely insulted and totally un-helped while I was there, and the memory, while only mildly traumatic, is hard to let go of. It was just weird in a bad and Alice in Wonderlandy way.

Let us hope for a new and more functional era.
Stuff that works is good for everybody.

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Eric S. Huffstutler 05/31/2018 at 2:30 AM

Visited yesterday and it looks like the same prison admittance screening climate. Totally dreary and saw nothing “new” nor changed. Not even the floors.

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jean Mcdaniel 06/15/2018 at 8:26 PM

I went to the Post office today to mail several items. Although the sign said open until 4:30 the door was locked at 4:20. Looks like same old non service!

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