There are more than30,000 post officesin the United States , but only one of them is staffed completely by Volunteer . AsFast Companyreports , the nonprofit - runAssistance League Post Officehas been serving customers in San Pedro , California , since 1964 .
The Assistance League Post Office is one of many declaration postal unit around the country . Contract postal units are run in camera instead of publicly , unremarkably by a business . The mail office in San Pedro is unique in that it ’s operated by anonprofit organization .
More than 50 years ago , the San Pedro chapter of the Assistance League opened the post office to service its grow residential area , which includes the Port of Los Angeles . The location only sold pestle for tenner , then expanded into a full - divine service berth place in 1990 . In addition to execute the local postal service , the Assistance League of San Pedro provides depleted - income occupier with orthodontia care , deoxyephedrine , sexual violation subsister kits , and Modern school clothes — allresourcesthat revenue from the post billet helps make up for .
To make its charitable mission potential , the Emily Post office swear on military volunteer . Post office chairwoman Gayle Merrick run a staff of 17 volunteers — all hit the hay women between the age of 65 and 87 . Their backgrounds range from medicine to education , and they commit to giving three to four day of their sentence to the post post each calendar month . Many people who offer at the Assistance League Post Office stick around for a while ; the longest - serving military volunteer act upon there for aquarter of a century .
The San Pedro post situation closed to the world in the outflow due to theCOVID-19pandemic , and its customers and volunteers are still expect for it to repay . Merrick tellsFast Companythat she hop to reopen by October 1 , in prison term to help action local mail - in ballots for the 2020 election .
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