It added that “Postal Service administration thought-about that some clients might affiliate the racially-based, segregated entrances with the present operations of the Submit Workplace and thereby draw destructive associations between these operations and the painful legacy of discrimination and segregation.”
The assertion was supplied to The Related Press by a USPS spokesperson Wednesday.
It mentioned operations had been being suspended on the Montpelier Station Submit Workplace with the intention of discovering appropriate different quarters in the neighborhood or within the absence of any, to proceed with a research of whether or not to discontinue the department.
The publish workplace location had one worker and operated 4 hours every day, in line with the assertion. It served about 100 individuals and closed in June, in line with the Culpeper Star-Exponent.
The restored practice depot is owned by the nonprofit basis that manages the Montpelier property. A panel on the constructing’s exterior introduces the exhibit inside.
Christy Moriarty, The Montpelier Basis’s communications director, advised the newspaper that the racial segregation exhibit and the publish workplace have co-existed since 2010.
“Montpelier owns the Practice Depot constructing and the exhibition will stay open,” she mentioned. “We name upon the USPS to reverse the choice and reopen this historic facility that has served this group for over a century.”
U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who represents the world, additionally raised considerations concerning the closure in a letter to the company’s Virginia district supervisor.
