If everything goes as planned, the residents of Queen Creek could be preparing and shipping their holiday packages from inside a new and spacious post office.
The land was deeded to the postal service by the Town of Queen Creek and construction in now well on its way towards completion of the new 26,000 square-foot post office, located just south of Ocotillo Road on the west side of Ellsworth Loop Road in Queen Creek and is expected to be complete by the end of the year.
Thanks to recent growth in the town and surrounding unincorporated areas, Queen Creek’s small post office has more than three times the customers today than it did five years ago. It served 10,000 mail delivery locations in October 2003 compared with 31,000 today. Queen Creek’s post office employs about 80 people.
The current post office is small and the town has out grown it. There is the same number of customer service windows as most other post offices, but the waiting area is cramped. A line that stretches longer than a few people often forces customers out the door. The parking lot is also very tight. There is no drive-thru lane for mailing letters, and it doesn't have a separate retail area for items such as stamps and shipping supplies. It's also too small to hold the mail and the town's carriers.
The new facility will keep both its workers and customers more comfortable and will operate a lot ore efficiently than the existing set up. There will be a drive-thru lane for customers can drop off their mail with out getting out of their cars and the space inside will have room for patrons to prepare their packages in comfort.