SPRING VALLEY & ELMWOOD, WI – Jody Sather is the latest Postmaster to serve the Spring Valley and Elmwood Post Offices (P.O.) and it is past time that we get to meet him.
Jody Sather who hails from Beldenville, Wisconsin, he always knew he wanted to be a Postmaster. He lives in the Lawton, El Paso area and started with the United States Postal Service (USPS) on August 31, 1985. He has held numerous positions with the USPS on his way to becoming the Postmaster here. He started as a Relief Rural Carrier, part-time, subbing for Floyd Husfloen at the Beldenville P.O. In the interim to becoming a fulltime Rural Carrier. With the USPS, Sather was farming and being an electrician for 13 years.
In 1997 Sather became a fulltime postal employee as a Carrier out of the Beldenville P.O. for a number of years and filling in as the Officer in Charge (O.I.C.) when the Postmaster there left. He took the position for the experience as well as taking a class to be an O.I.C., that lasted for six months, before going back to being a Route Carrier again. That was followed by six more months as the O.I.C. again before becoming the O.I.C. for the Prescott P.O. for six months.
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