TIETON, Wash. – The U.S. Postal Service has declined a civic improvement group’s proposal to replace the Tieton Post Office’s facade with a giant mosaic resembling a historic postage stamp.
But that doesn’t mean the Tieton Stamp Mosaic project — $1,975 shy of its $48,000 Kickstarter campaign — won’t happen.
Supporters of the plan to create “the coolest post office in America” say they’ll do what the USPS requires to replace the post office’s utilitarian facade with a mosaic of 41,500 hand-cut glass tiles.
Swanson sent an email late Wednesday morning saying a letter was delivered to the Mighty Tieton organization this week by the Postal Service declining the project.
“This so rarely happens that I don’t know,” Swanson said in a subsequent phone call. “I guess maybe the next step would be for the folks at Mighty Tieton to appeal to that vice president.”
That’s exactly what Ed Marquand, partner and founder of Mighty Tieton — an incubator for artisan and design-related light manufacturing businesses — says he’ll do.
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We cant have this!!!……it’s counter to sabotaging the Company!
This is just ridiculous. Whoever this Ernie guy is I think he should be helping them out a little more. This is why post offices are boring!