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Published May 20, 2008 08:38 pm - Towns trying to get post offices By David Lazenby davidl@cullmantimes
WEST POINT — West Point Mayor Kenneth Kilgo delivered a progress report on efforts to create a post office during Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting of the city council. Kilgo said he and four other Cullman County mayors met with county post master Lynn Reeves to discuss obtaining post offices in their communities. Kilgo said the message he received from Reeves was discouraging. “She said your chances of getting a post office are two — slim and none.” However, Kilgo said a continued effort on the part of the Cullman Area Mayors’ Council has yielded some results. “We’re getting a little movement,” he said. Although Kilgo was told the U.S. Postal Office was not interested in constructing a new building, he added, “They are trying to look for what they call alternative market access.” This, Kilgo said, would involve the post office contracting with an existing business. “There’s over 5,000 of them nationwide and they’ve been real successful for the post office and the businesses,” Kilgo said during a phone interview Tuesday. Kilgo said Reeves will conduct a needs analysis for West Point with assistance from the Birmingham division of the U.S. Postal Service. Kilgo said he hopes Reeves will consider West Point has the largest county school in the state and a busy four-lane highway. “We have over 14,000 vehicles a day go through this light out here,” Kilgo said about the intersection of Alabama Highway 157 and County Road 1242. If the analysis determines the need exists, Kilgo said there will be a “solicitation for suppliers” — the search for an existing business that would be interested in investing in a contract postal unit. Kilgo said interested suppliers that meet the post office’s criteria would mail an information packet to the U.S. Postal Service’s marketing department in Denver, Colo. 
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