Posting notice

A smiling presence in the Sundance Post Office for the last two years, Postmistress Pam Craig officially began her retirement on Friday. While excited to begin a new life of fishing, ranching, traveling and spending time with grandkids with her new husband at his Colorado ranching business, Craig says she will dearly miss the career that has spanned just over three decades.

"I was hired in 1988. I was a rancher's wife and we were paycheck to paycheck, not very well off at all. A very rural post office came available when the postmaster retired in a little town called Hereford, Colorado and it was only open four hours a day," Craig reminisces.

"There were 14 people from the community who put in for it and I was the lucky one chosen. It was the biggest gift from God other than my children that I've ever gotten."

Craig has loved every minute of being a postmaster, she says.

"I was in Hereford for five years and then in Burns, Wyoming up until March, 2017 when I came up here," she says. "I've been here for just barely over two years and I probably wouldn't be retiring except that I met a wonderful man and married him in November – he's really looking forward to having me at home."

It will be a strange transition, she says, to no longer be a postmistress. Those first few days will be hard.

“There’s no other job out there for me that I love,” she smiles. “When you do something that you love for 31 years, it’s who you are, not just what you do.”

Craig says she is truly thankful to have had the chance to finish out her career here in Sundance.

“I absolutely love this town. The people here are amazing – they’re friendly, they’re very welcoming and warm – and I just can’t say enough good things about this town,” she says.

“Wyoming is my favorite state in the country and Sundance is now my favorite town in Wyoming. If it wasn’t for the fact my grandkids don’t live here, we would be keeping my house and staying here.”

One day, she says, she may well return. In the meantime, she plans to keep in touch and visit as often as possible to check in on her Sundance friends in the post office and beyond.

“The two things I’ve loved the most are my employees and my customers,” she says. “It’s been my honor and my privilege to be able to do this.”