Postal: a place for more than parcels

Charlie Widner, 27th Special Operations Communications Squadron, speaks with a customer at the base mail center at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2018. Widner has worked at the mail center for over two years, helping out hundreds of customers a day by helping organize and deliver mail for the thousands of servicemembers that work at the Air Force Special Operations Command base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)

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Postal: a place for more than parcels

Charlie Widner, 27th Special Operations Communications Squadron postal clerk, shakes the hand of a mail customer after giving him his mail at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2018. . The base mail center contains a crew of five individuals, all of whom are tasked with filtering and delivering over 12,000 parcels a month for the thousands of servicemembers at Cannon. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)

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Postal: a place for more than parcels

A 27th Special Operations Communications Squadron postal clerk filters mail out of a delivery truck at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2018. The base mail center contains a crew of five individuals, all of whom are tasked with filtering and delivering over 12,000 parcels a month for the thousands of servicemembers at Cannon. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)

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Postal: a place for more than parcels

Charlie Widner, 27th Special Operations Communications Squadron postal clerk, checks in on an incoming shipment as his employees park the delivery truck in the mail center at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2018. The center contains a crew of five individuals, all of whom are tasked with filtering and delivering over 12,000 parcels a month for the thousands of servicemembers at Cannon. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)

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Postal: a place for more than parcels

Parcel is scanned as it comes through the 27th Special Operations Wing Communications Squadron’s mail center at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2018. For safety measures, all parcel comes through, is scanned and then dissected into dozens of bins for units to maintain organization when it is all shipped to the mailing addresses. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)

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Postal: a place for more than parcels

Charlie Widner, 27th Special Operations Communications Squadron postal clerk, shows his office at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2018. Originally a storage room, Widner’s office is where he works half the time. He described his team’s ability to get the job done enough for him not to continuously check on him. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)

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Over 12,000 pieces of parcel cycle through the mail center in a single month at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. The Air Force Special Operations Command base has over 5,000 active duty service members and civilians working on it. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)

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Postal; a place with more than parcels

Published Nov. 27, 2018
By Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer
27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs

CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. -- Charlie Widner, 27th Special Operations Communications Squadron, speaks with a customer at the base mail center at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2018. Widner has worked at the mail center for over two years, helping out hundreds of customers a day by helping organize and deliver mail for the thousands of servicemembers that work at the Air Force Special Operations Command base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lane T. Plummer)