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Article: WESTLAKE POSTAL UNIT NOT GOING ANYWHERE, SAYS OWNER
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- December 5, 2008
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It's nearing 6 o'clock on a recent Thursday night, almost closing
time at the contract postal unit in Westlake Plaza. A big white
paneled truck with "U.S. Mail" in big block letters pulls up to the
curb.
Inside the building, Jim Blevins is diligently working to get all
of the mail into large bags and placed into an orange container for
the truck driver. The two men exchange pleasantries; Blevins signs
some paperwork and the driver wheels the orange container to the
truck.
For more than two decades, this has been Blevins' bread and
butter -- operating the contract postal unit in the Westlake area.
"I started [working as a postal contractor] in '85," said
Blevins. "I had a shoe store and I ...