Postal Service to rename Gwynn Oak Post Office Building
WHAT: Re-naming of the Gwynn Oak Branch Building
WHEN: Friday, January 26
6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Enoch Pratt Free Library
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
House of Representative Elijah Cummings 7th District Maryland
The Honorable Parren J.Mitchell, former 7th District Maryland House of Representative
William Ridenour Postmaster Baltimore Maryland
DETAILS: The Postal Service will rename the Gwynn Oak Station building in honor of former Congressman Parren J. Mitchell per Public Law No: 109-327 sponsored by Representative Elijah Cummings 7th District Maryland. Mitchell was elected to represent the state’s 7th Congressional District in 1971, and during this 16-year career in the House served as chairman of the Committee on Small Business and was a senior Democrat on the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee. He was also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Parren Mitchell was born in 1922 and graduated from Douglass High School in Baltimore and Morgan State College.
“Placing former Congressman Mitchell’s name on the post office will commemorate his many contributions to our community, our state and indeed our nation,” said Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-7th).
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Since 1775, the United States Postal Service has connected friends, families, neighbors and businesses by mail. An independent federal agency, the Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation — 146 million homes and businesses — six days a week. It receives no taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but depends only on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. With annual revenues of $75 billion, it is the world’s leading provider of mailing and delivery services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the world. The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 46 percent of the world’s mail — some 213 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year — and serves 10 million customers each day at its 37,000 retail locations nationwide.