Meet Middleburg’s New Postmaster
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Photo by Vicky Moon
Terence Fellers-Danzer is Middleburg’s new postmaster.
Charles Carroll IV, MD
By Tameshia Warner
ack when he was earning a bachelor’s degree in drama and specializing in theater design and technology at the University of Virginia, where he also played fullback and linebacker on the football team, Terence Fellers-Danzer was asked once if he ever aspired to be on stage instead of back stage. No, he told the Daily Progress newspaper in Charlottesville, “I like being the man behind the scenes.” Not much has changed since he graduated in 2011, because Terence spends a good bit of his time these days out of the public’s eye at his desk in back of the building as the relatively new postmaster at the Middleburg post office. He started on July 1 and describes himself as a “Jack of all trades, and a master of none.” The Culpeper native is the third generation member of his family to be in the postal service and the first to become a postmaster, with a variety of responsibilities that only occasionally include dealing with the public at the front counter. “At one point I wanted to be a clerk because I enjoyed the interactions and relationships you can build with customers just over a quick transaction,” he said. “You can tell a lot about a person by the
type of stamps that they purchase.” Terence has a wide variety of responsibilities in supervising eight employees in a bustling building with 1,800 post office boxes. He’s involved in data processing, budgeting and scheduling as well as mail and package sorting and overseeing rural route mail and package deliveries. And very occasionally, when someone is sick or unavailable, he may move into the retail end behind the counter or even take the wheel of a postal truck and make deliveries himself. He’s also a busy man at home in Manassas, where he and his wife De’Arberge are raising four children—their son Reagan and his sisters Violet, Lincoln, and Scarlet. He was also extremely busy at Culpeper High School, where he played football, basketball, and baseball and ran on the track team. Terence was a widely recruited football player who began his collegiate career at UVA as a 6-foot2, 230 pound linebacker, then switched to fullback after his sophomore year. When he was not drafted by the NFL, he decided football was no longer a career option. Instead, he joined the postal service as a carrier in Manassas, then began working his way up to his current position, which he adores. He also has a simple management philosophy, that carries over to his every day life, as well. “Treat everyone with dignity and respect,” he said. “It makes everything easier.”
Geraldine Carroll
Charles Carroll IV, MD Orthopedic Surgery, Hand, Upper Extremity Surgery and Rehabilitation 109 W, Marshall Street, Middleburg, VA 20117 540-326-8182 | Email: orthomd@ccarrollmd.com
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