New post office to open in mid-July

Jennifer Guckert

Dm Staff writer

Many Oxford residents are eagerly awaiting the opening of a new post office off Airport Rd.

"I wish that the new post office would hurry up and open," said Paul Moss, an Oxford resident.

The new Oxford post office is scheduled to be open in mid-July, according to postmaster Bill Farrior.

"The current post office is too small," Farrior said. "Currently the post office is 9,000 square feet. The new post office will be 24,000 square feet."

The post office in the federal court house will be closed and will be moved to 401 McElroy Drive, near the soccer fields.

"The new post office will be a lot more convenient for the people who live on Old Sardis Road, College Hill and St. Andrews," said Dorothy Lou Aldridge, a resident of the Lakeway subdivision. "Although the drive will be little longer for some, the parking will be much easier than in the Square."

More space, a store, new automated equipment and machines that read bar codes and sort mail will be advantages to the new post office, according to Farrior.

The new post office will not only be larger, but it will also be a lot different. "The post office will be ultra-modern," said Farrior. "It will be state of the art."

New automated machines that the post office will acquire when it moves will make it faster and easier to process mail. In addition to processing Oxford's mail, the new post office will also process all the university's mail instead of it going through Memphis.

A postal store will also be located in the new post office. "This store will be like a convenience store filled with merchandise that you buy at the post office," said Farrior.

"This post office is currently ranked the number one post office in North Mississippi," said Farrior. "The new building is going to be the nicest one in north Mississippi, maybe even in all of of Mississippi."

Ashley Daniels, a resident of Oxford, said, "Although the new post office looks really nice I am really going to miss the post office on the Square."