Local Augusta pharmacy losing its post office contract
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Surrey Center Pharmacy in Augusta has recently lost its post office contract.
Since 1979, the Surrey Center Pharmacy has provided a unique place for locals to come.
While supplying a place for filling prescriptions, they have been a designated United States Postal Service substation, and provide food products.
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At the end of September, they will lose their postal service contract, and locals are calling on state officials to help.
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Congressman Rick Allen posted a statement on Facebook voicing his displeasure with the decision.
“I am wholeheartedly against the unilateral decision from USPS to potentially close its substation located at Surrey Center Pharmacy. All Georgia taxpayers, including myself, depend on USPS to do business, receive medications, pay bills, and much more,” said Allen in the post.
Allen is demanding answers as to why USPS closed the substation at the Surrey Center, and he said USPS will continue hearing from him until he gets information.
We spoke with Earl Wright, who is a pharmacist at the Surrey Center, and he said part of the shopping center will feel like it’s missing.
Storeowner and pharmacist Courtnee Russ said it was a decision that came from up top.
“They said that it was a decision that came from Washington, DC, that they were just sent the list and told to call the folks on the list, the only information that they had was that it was a retail operations decision. It was not performance-based. But that was all the information that they could give us,” said Russ.
The USPS released a statement explaining why it will close the substation:
“In the case of the Surrey Center Pharmacy at 483 Highland Ave, Augusta, GA 30909, the Postal Service determined that nearby postal facilities are able to serve the community. The closest Postal Service-operated retail facility to the Surrey Center Pharmacy is the Forrest Hill Post Office, which is 3.4 miles away at 3301 Wrightsboro Rd, Augusta, GA 30909.”
Local Augusta pharmacy losing its post office contract
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People from all over the CSRA use the center, like people from Evans, Martinez and Waynesboro.
“These people here, they know you by your first name, they get to know you, they get to know your kids. It’s to me it’s vitally important because look at the shopping center there, all these small businesses that ship out packages too,” said Beverly Peltier, uses the post office.
“It’s sad. We have a lot of people that we have just learned over the years, some that can’t read, that can’t write, that can’t hear, that feel comfortable coming to us. A lot of them started coming over here because they pick up prescriptions and but they know that they can slide us a piece of paper with what they need. And we’ll just do it for them,” said Brittnee Reynolds, works at Surrey Center.
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