I've been told that if you live in Waterville long enough, at some point you will run into every local resident in the post office. Three and a half years is not long enough to accomplish such a feat, but I have noticed that many faces are beginning to become familiar.
In Wenatchee, visiting the post office was never something I would have considered to be a warm and neighborly experience. The atmosphere there is cold and impersonal. Visitors rarely speak to one another and most seem to take care not to even look at the people around them.
In Waterville, though, the post office is essentially the social hub. It is the one place that everyone has to visit on a regular basis, which makes it far more than just a place to process mail. It is a place one can get the latest news on friends, family, politics and wheat farming. I think it's funny to see people standing together on the sidewalk, mail in hand, immersed in conversation with their cars still running beside them; evidence that they thought it was going be a quick trip in and out.
If you want to find out what's happening in Waterville, you need not go any further than the local post office!
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