Brookhaven Having Trouble Getting Respect from USPS

The likely reason? The postal service only just recognized Brookhaven as a legitimate mailing address.

“You would think that, when you create a city, that you would automatically be recognized by the Post Office so that you could send a letter to Brookhaven, Georgia,” says Brookhaven Mayor Pro-Tem Rebecca Chase Williams. “Not so fast!”

Williams has worked with the post office for almost two years to make the change for Brookhaven — or at least most of it. “Oh, but they left out the little sliver of 30341 and 30324,” says Williams. “And we said, ‘Well, why can’t they be Brookhaven? They’re in our city limits.’ And they said, ‘Oh, It would just be too confusing.’”

No matter where you live in Brookhaven, you can keep using Atlanta as your mailing address.

Hannah Crawford is one of the residents with that option. So will she change her return address? “I don’t know. To be honest with you, I haven’t thought about it, I guess I’ll change it maybe.”

There is a post office in Brookhaven, on Dresden Drive, in ZIP code 30319. That is where I ran into Adrian Morton and asked him to read the sign on the front of the building. “United States Post Office, North Atlanta, Branch, Atlanta, Georgia,” read Morton. “So that’s obviously going to be changed to say Brookhaven, I would assume.” He laughed when I told him the Postal Service has not yet agreed to change the signage.

Williams says that is one of her next battles. She is also trying to get the Postal Service to create a Brookhaven GA, postmark.