- Date
- 2012-07-31
- Kind
- Retirement
- Where
- structure/saint-james-post-office
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationgovernmentcommunitywork
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Beaver Island Forum participants announced that postmaster Michelle Dreffs was retiring at the end of July 2012 and posted thanks for her service and conversation with customers.
Evidence limits
The thread documents the announced retirement and community response. It does not establish Dreffs’s full postal career, the formal retirement date in agency records, or the identity of a successor.
Sources
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Sources
- A community notice identified July 31 as Michelle Dreffs's last day and described a 35-plus-year postal career. The career-length statement is participant testimony; the thread establishes community notice and recognition, not a Postal Service personnel record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005275
- Participants announced Michelle Dreffs’s retirement date and posted numerous thanks for her service and friendly customer interactions. The thread is strong evidence of community recognition and the announced retirement, but does not establish her complete employment history or successor.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005276
- A first-person post by Dreffs’s temporary successor described moving into a full-time postmaster/OIC role after her retirement, resigning on August 28, and Dreffs returning to operate the office. The account includes employment and pay claims that should be checked against Postal Service records; it is useful evidence of a turbulent transition, not an official personnel record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005442
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island community marks postmaster Michelle Dreffs’s retirement, 2012”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-postmaster-michelle-dreffs-retirement-2012/, accessed [date], citing Alice Belfy and community respondents, “Congratulations to \"Mailbox\" Michelle!!!,” Beaver Island Forum, July 30, 2012. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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