'Sconset post office on schedule to re-open by June 1
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
'Sconset's post office is on its way to re-opening this spring, thanks to the crews that building owners Bernie and Carol Coffin hired last fall.

ROB BENCHLEY/The Independent Brant Point Building and Property Management is going postal to finish building owner Bernie and Carol Coffin's renovations to 'Sconset's post office. Brant Point expects be to done well before the opening deadline of June 1.

Although he would not give a specific date on how soon he would be finished, contractor Doug Collatz of Brant Point Building and Property Management said he will meet the June 1 deadline.

"We're pushing through and I don't see any reason why it won't be done by June 1," said Collatz on Monday.

Brant Point Building and Property Management, JDR Builders and RDV Painting renovated the building to its former self, including reinstalling an historic low railing on the front part of the roof facing up Main Street. Toscana Corp. raised the building to put in a new foundation with a full basement. Coffin is also redoing the adjacent Sconset Real Estate office and the apartment above the post office.

The post office interior includes new flooring, new wiring and plumbing, and a new furnace in the basement of the real estate office that will heat the entire building.

Coffin is also adding about 100 new post office boxes and has worked with the U.S. Postal Service to keep many of the vintage brass-and-glass mailboxes that will be augmented with aluminum ones.

The Coffin family purchased the building, where 750 box holders get their mail, for $23,000 in November 1970.

Since construction began in December, 'Sconset post office patrons have been getting their mail at a temporary trailer sent up in Larsen Park next to the

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