Remodeled Post Office To Open March 20

The signs in the lobby read “weigh it”, “mail it” and “stamp it.”

The expanded Veradale branch post office at 5202 E. Sprague will open March 20.

The modern-looking branch will have more mail-it-yourself features and one of the area’s few postal stores.

The lobby will have an automatic stamp machine, a scale that calculates postage and drop boxes.

It also will have 600 additional post office boxes.

Inside will be two service counters and a postal store that will sell stamps, stamp collecting books, phone cards, mailer packages and other postal items.

When completed, the building will be 8,500 square feet - double the size of the current facility - and will have 49 parking spaces.

“Everybody’s really excited. The community out here has needed this for a long time,” said Veradale branch postmaster Dwight Douvia.

The Veradale branch has been one of the busier branches since it opened in 1981.

It takes in approximately $1.7 million in yearly revenue, Douvia said, and will be the only Valley office to have a postal store.

Jean Kelley, who has used that branch for the past five years, said she’s looking forward to having a separate counter to buy stamps.

“That’s a biggie,” she said. “That’ll make things a whole lot faster and easier.”

Kelley said what she loves about the Veradale branch is how friendly the people are who work there to anyone who walks through the door.

“This whole area is so friendly and family oriented, and they’re just an extension of us,” she said.

Once the newer, western part of the post office is open, work will begin to remodel the other half. It will become offices and a mail processing center and should be finished in two months.