Postal Service shuts Montpelier Station office over racial segregation exhibit

[Yonnie3]

I am at a loss for words.

Culpeper Star Exponent

Allison Brophy Champion Aug 14, 2022

As with snail mail, information was slow in coming. But it’s faster to realize that more conversation is needed about the difficult history of race in America, in Virginia and at James Madison’s Montpelier.

The U.S. Postal Service gives “unacceptable” history as the reason it suddenly closed the rural post office next to James Madison’s Montpelier on State Route 20—Constitution Highway—in Orange County. Madison was the fourth U.S. president.

The agency shut its Montpelier Station Post Office the first week of June because it objected to a historical exhibit there about how the depot was once racially segregated, a Postal Service spokesman said.

“Service at Montpelier Station was suspended after it was determined the display at the site was unacceptable to the Postal Service,” USPS spokesman Philip Bogenberger emailed the Culpeper Star-Exponent on Aug. 9.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Still not time to get rid of the pig DeJoy eh....

[Farmer-Rick]

2. Wow, that's weird

In Macon, GA, there is a main post office facility that use to work out of a downtown historical building. It had a mural in the main lobby that depicted the history of the area including images of slavery and Jim Crow. I wonder if they are still in that building? I"m a mural painter from way back when and enjoy other people's work.

I thought the mural in Macon, GA was a very interesting mural. Don't know why the Montpelier post office objects to history? They seem to have an historical mural as well. Are the racist now going to paint over historical murals?

I wonder if the murals I helped paint are still there?

[central scrutinizer]

3. The Eugene Post Office has two beautiful murals

https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/post-office-murals-eugene-or/

[intheflow]

4. This is obviously a bullshit move by some MAGA zealot in the PO.

I don't think this one came from DeJoy. It reads more like someone suddenly decided the time was right to complain and get results. Verily, this reminds me of the recent Texas book-banning frenzy that was instigated by one parent and some Republican politicians.

* The exhibit has been there for 10 years but now it's suddenly offensive.

* The exhibit is not in the post office, but in adjoining rooms of the building. My local PO had a fire one time and had to relocate to a strip mall while repairs were made. This idea that the PO would be "tainted" by a mural but not, say, a package store - as was in the strip mall my PO relocated to - just illustrates the bullshit nature of this whole episode.