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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Dunn County Seat: One of The Busiest Oil Counties In the Nation -- No Post Office -- Manning, ND, Post Office To Close (Along With Zip Code)

Update

Last today for the post office in Manning.

Original Post

Link here, regional link that will break early.

The postmaster will retire this year. Job advertised for three years; no one took the job. Post office will close.
Manning, not even an incorporated city, has been through some tough fights to remain the county seat of Dunn County, but now it looks like it won’t win the fight to keep its post office.

Longtime postmaster Cheryl Borth is retiring June 30 and the post office will closed, likely permanently, that day at noon.
It isn’t closing for lack of business. It’s closing for lack of someone willing to take over the job.
Dunn County Commission chairman Daryl Dukart said the county courthouse sends out 50 to 70 pieces of mail daily, including some that have to be certified and registered.

Mail will come out of the Dickinson office and get dropped off in cluster curbside boxes in Manning by about noon.

3 comments:

  1. I cannot believe no one would take this job. The requirements must be terribly high.

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  2. Had I known, I would have jumped at the opportunity, but would have wanted a week off each month. And three months of summer vacation. And a couple weeks off in the winter. I imagine all that was negotiable.

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  3. Hard to get serious lookers when they advertised it at $9.45 an hour and the convenience store down the block starts at $10/hour.

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