Post Office
The Briceville post office was established in 1888. As of 2011, it served a population of about 1,400 in Briceville and northwestern Anderson County, with 332 post office boxes in the post office and one rural postal carrier route extending from Fraterville to the New River community. In July 2011 the U.S. Postal Service identified it as one of 3,653 retail post offices proposed for closure.
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“A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, ‘Boy, where’s the post office?’
‘I don’t know.’
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‘I don’t know.’
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—William Harmon (b. 1938)