On the last day of business at the Ardmore neighborhood post office, Kim Babon brought a package of handmade jewelry to mail to a customer.
Babon, who has taught sociology around the Triad — including at Wake Forest University — lives in Ardmore and uses the post office at least once a week to send her art to customers who buy it online.
"There's something about having a neighborhood post office — nostalgia, maybe," Babon said. "I'm just sad to see it close."
The Ardmore Station post office, at 229 Miller St., closed Friday, about six months later than originally scheduled.
The post office has leased the building from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center since 2006.
Hospital administrators plan to build a $38.7 million ambulatory-surgery center on the site.
The proposed 72,300-square-foot center would consist of seven new operating rooms and one transferred from N.C. Baptist Hospital.
Post office boxes at Ardmore Station will be moved to the post office downtown at 200 Town Run Lane, between Second and Third streets.
The post office had been scheduled to close Dec. 31 but was granted an extension. A new post office opened in Ardmore this month at the Ace Hardware in the Cloverdale Shopping Center. That post office operates on a contract with the hardware store and does not offer all the services of a full post office.
The Ardmore Neighborhood Association had fought the closing, saying that the downtown post office is inconvenient and does not have enough parking.
But not all nearby residents were sad to see the Ardmore post office go.
Elizabeth Sanders, who lives between the Ardmore post office and the post office at Hanes Mall, said the Ardmore post office, which closed at 5 p.m., was not as handy for her. Mostly, she goes to the Hanes Mall post office, which stays open until 6 p.m.
Sanders had stopped at the Ardmore post office Friday afternoon to mail a package.
"I usually only use this one when I have to run an errand this way," Sanders said.
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