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pushing for its
own post office
By John Wark
OF THE SENTINEL STAFF
WINTER SPRINGS — As cities go, this one is
typical in most ways. It has malls, gas stations,
banks, schools and churches. It has 14,817 residents.
But what it doesn't have is a post office befitting
its growth,says Mayor John V. Torcaso.
But that's all suppose to change by 1987,the year
a branch of the Casselberry post office is scheduled
to open in Winter Springs.
The post office issue is one that has produced a
strong consensus among those 14,817 residents of
Winter Springs who must journey roughly 5 miles
to Casselberry to mail overseas, post a certified let-
ter or pick up packages requiring signed receipts.
"A city this size should have its own post office,"
Torcaso said. He has intensified the longstand-
ing fight for a local office, turning it at times into a
one-man crusade. Through a letter-writing cam-
paign, Torcaso received support from many of the
area's U S Congressional representatives in
Washington.
Bill Chappell, D-Daytona Beach Shores, recently
wrote to the city to say that the U.S. Post Office is
beginning to show signs it could be persuaded to
move up the date the branch is scheduled to open.
The city has a "contract branch"of the post office
The service is limited and so are the hours it is
open, 9 a m. to 4 p.m. The tiny post office must
share space with the Big Red Q Quick Print Center,
which is tucked into an out-of-view corner of the
Atrium II office center at State Road 434 and Edge-
mon Road.
"It's a darn good idea,"said the woman clerking at
the post office counter of the new branch. "We
don't have the capacity here. Customers get per-
turbed because although our doors are open, this
side of the building is not as accessible.
"And I think not everybody in the area knows
were here."
The clerk — who did not give her name —
said many customers complain about the limited
services.
"I'd vote for it (a new post office)," said Doris De-
Cook,who has lived in Winter Springs for six years.
"We need it desperately. We have enough people. If
we have registered letters or to get a box we have to
go to the post office in Casselberry."
DeCook, who works at the nearby Revco Drug
Store,says her custome.s often complain to her,too.
"So many people come into the Revco store and say,
'Where's your post office?'"she said. "I hope we get
one of our own."