Topanga Postmaster Romeo Concepción has been on the job since August. He is now renegotiating the lease on the post office building and also looking for two rural carrier assistants to join the staff.
In the long and storied history of the Topanga Post Office, with delivery over miles of twisty roads and narrow trails, it is wonderful to know that the community has a brand-new Postmaster.
Romeo E. Concepción began the job in August, 2023 and along with his staff of ten, he offers service with a smile.
Concepción is so dedicated to the job that he travels in daily from the Moreno Valley, which is a 1.5-hour drive coming to Topanga and a 3.5-hour drive going home! (His other choice was as postmaster in Sonora, CA, a six-hour drive one-way.)
Concepción is committed to serving the Topanga community with rural free delivery for the more than 12,000 residents in addition to managing several hundred post office boxes. Prior to working for the post office, Concepción served four years in the Navy in San Diego before applying for a job at the post office, where he has worked for the past 30 years.
“I applied for the job and took the test, and luckily, I passed with flying colors,” he said.
Concepción’s current challenge in Topanga is negotiating a new lease with the landlord and making sure that vital repairs, such as a leaky roof and damp basement, get done on the building. He credits community leader Susan Nissman with recently getting the post office building power-washed to remove decades of dirt and “spider webs.”
Concepción also praised community leader Roger Pugliese, of TASC and the Topanga Trash Warriors, to help keep the post office open in that location.
