Downtown delivers for its carrier
GREENSBORO — After 10 years delivering for downtown business owners, Robert McCance has had the favor returned by them.
A U.S. mail carrier, McCance was reassigned to a new route last month after more than a decade downtown.
“People change routes all the time,” Carl Walton, spokesman for the Greensboro office of the United States Postal Service, said of the change.
Business owners, having developed relationships with McCance over the years, decided to fight back.
Downtown workers pleaded to keep McCance. They called the local postmaster. Someone placed an advertisement with the post office phone number.
“He’s a good person for this area,” said Joan Cudworth, who works at Southeast Financial Services. “He’s a good ambassador for the post office.”
McCance keeps an upbeat personality and jokes with many of those who see him each day. They’re used to that smile and his trademark year-round shorts.
“We have been told that we had better be good winners,” said Judy Morton at Action Greensboro.
Getting a win from a large bureaucracy such as the post office isn’t always easy, she and others have said.
What does McCance make of it?
“The people won,” he said.
Contact Gerald Witt at 373-7008 or gerald.witt@news-record.com
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