EASTON, Pa. – A post office in Northampton County is seeing quite the increase in mail, customers, and employees.
The Ferry Street post office in Easton closed its doors for repairs two weeks ago.
Since then all operations have moved to the post office in Palmer Township.
“Palmer was a busy office but it hasn’t been overwhelming as far customer traffic,” said postmaster Byrenda Wilson.
The office taking on 100 percent of the operations from Easton’s Ferry Street Post Office. The increase in volume is significant.
“That’s part of my job to problem solve. It’s about where we are going to put the carriers cases and things of that nature,” said Wilson.
Palmer is taking on all of the mail, customers and all 40 employees, including, Sherri Sherrod, a lead clerk who worked at the Ferry Street location.
“It’s like your first apartment having roommates. We all have different things going on but at the end of the day we all make it work and mesh together. We help each other out. I think the more the merrier,” said Sherrod.
Sherrod says she is seeing a lot of familiar faces and meeting more each day.
“They are loyal customers so we want to make sure we keep them coming in and we service them within a specific period of time make sure they’re happy,” she said.
As for the Ferry street office….
“Right now, we don’t have a timeline for getting back into the building, but we are looking forward to it. We can’t wait to get back into the facility,” said Wilson.