By Angela Brown

Battleford post office to officially reopen in June

Apr 11, 2018 | 2:00 PM

Battleford residents have something to look forward to now that the historic post office building downtown is finally set to reopen for business.

Canada Post announced Wednesday the post office on 22nd St. will open June 4. The post office in the century-old building was expected to open before Christmas of last year, though the project suffered delays as there were still some final details to complete. Canada Post has now officially announced the reopening. 

“We sincerely apologize to our Battleford customers for the delay in returning to our newly renovated post office,” Canada Post said in a statement. “We are looking forward to serving our customers on 22nd St. starting Monday, June 4.” 

The building owners, Cassandra Germsheid and her husband Jesse Crozier, have contributed a number of improvements to the century-old building along with Canada Post. Germsheid said she and Crozier were excited to hear the post office will be ready to open again soon.

“I know everybody is going to be really happy when they get in there,” she said. “It’s going to look so different, totally updated.”

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Germsheid and Crozier completed extensive renovations to the building in the fall of 2017, including upgrades to the building exterior such as cleaning the brickwork, painting the roof and painting the exterior doors. The interior work also involved upgrading the building’s plumbing, flooring, and electrical systems. Canada Post will be transferring the mailboxes to the site downtown as they prepare for the opening.

The downtown post office building closed in October of 2015 due to a number of health and safety issues, which have since been addressed. In the interim, the Battleford post office was run out of a temporary location.

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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