Petition

We, the citizens and customers of Holman Post Office, OUR Post Office, hereby protest any change in the present status of OUR post office.

It is our strongly held desire to retain OUR post office at its present status, operated by a postmaster and career postal employees.

The Holman Post Office, OUR Post Office, has been in continuous service for 117 years. The town name was changed to that of the first postmaster, Charles Holman, and this town is very proud of our history.

Holman is a self-sustaining community with a complete demographic from babies to great grandparents, with an elementary school for the children of young families. This community has a Volunteer Fire department, it has two churches and a convent, it has 3 Water Associations and several small businesses. Holman is not a bedroom community, nor a retirement community, but a thriving local community, and OUR Post Office is an important center of community communications and contact.

The building and grounds of OUR Post Office are in very good shape, the building is modern and well maintained, and to just abandon it seems ridiculous and wasteful to this community, especially when other facilities in the Mora Valley are in far worse shape.

We have many concerns, among them the sanctity of the mail and the inconvenience your proposal presents to us in delivering and sending the mail, particularly accountable mail. We are especially concerned over what effect your proposed action would have regarding the purchase of postal money orders. We are also aware of the documented abuse possible through a contract mail station. Our community members have many concerns over the possibilities for vandalism and theft.

This community does not feel that the recent death of Postmaster Dolly Gallegos should be seized upon as a convenient pretext for depriving this community of OUR Post Office. Lack of a Postmaster does not reflect a lack of need by the community.

The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 calls for providing a maximum degree of effective and regular postal service to rural areas, communities and small towns where post offices are not financially self-sustaining.

We feel that your proposed actions are based mostly on the convenient absence of a postmaster, rather than all of the many aspects that should be carefully considered.

With blessings in these difficult times,
Customers of OUR Holman Post office