Facility to Be Dedicated to 1st Black Postmaster
The new local mail processing facility of the U. S. Postal Service, under construction in South-Central Los Angeles, will be dedicated to the late Leslie Nelson Shaw Sr., first black postmaster of Los Angeles.
The $151-million project is expected to be completed in February, at which time all mail processing activities performed at the Terminal Annex downtown will be switched to the new building at Florence and Central avenues.
Shaw, who died in 1985, was postmaster of Los Angeles from 1963 to 1969.
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