CATASAUQUA, PA — As of this morning, the Catasauqua Post Office is experiencing a delay in mail delivery due to a partial ceiling/roof collapse, reportedly in the main lobby area of the building where postal workers service customers.
No one was inside the building at the time of the collapse, and there were no injuries.
A member of the ANYTHING Catasauqua, PA Facebook group initially posted the report around 8 a.m. this morning at the request of the postmaster.
Lehigh Daily stopped by the building shortly after to confirm the news. In a brief interview with a member of the office on-site, they shared the following.
“The post office will be on a delay of mail delivery. Our emergency contingency plan involves working out of the Whitehall post office. So just give us some time, a couple of days, to get ourselves oriented, and then we’ll have a better delivery system hopefully by early next week.”
Many community members online are worried about how the collapse may affect the building’s unique historic architecture, which it still proudly flaunts today.
The Catasauqua Post Office was built in 1936 with federal Treasury Department funds during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal period.
The office still displays a large oil-on-canvas mural titled Arrival of the Stage by F. Luis Mora, completed in 1936, the same year the post office was constructed.
The status of the artwork and the building’s overall condition are currently unknown.
