- Coincidences
abound
- Sunnyside
postmaster shares name with Yakima IRS agent
- SUNNYSIDE (Wednesday 1-26-00)--Boy, here's a
bunch of coincidences for YVN's readers.
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- Karen Durkee, Sunnyside Postmaster, is "out
on special assignment" in the western states"
according to Sunnyside PO employees. So reporters
can't immediately ask her if she's the same
Karen
Durkee who's an IRS agent operating out
of 107 S. 7th Ave., Yakima.
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- The newspaper called IRS-Karen at (509)
454-5706 and asked her if she was
sometime-Sunnyside Postmaster Karen
Durkee.
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- Said IRS-Karen, "I'm not the
Sunnyside Postmaster. I've been working for the IRS
in Yakima the past 10 years. How'd you get this
phone number?"
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- Intrepid reporters went to Sunnyside Post
Office and chatted briefly with Acting Postmaster
Larry Decker. He seemed a bit surprised at the name
coincidence, and the other coincidence that
Sunnyside Postmaster Karen was "out on special
assignment for a few months".
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- Decker said Postmaster-Karen's out-of-town
assignment, is "in Phoenix, and in several other
western states." She'll apparently be travelin'
some.
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- Postmaster-Karen reportedly has been with
the U.S. Post Office since 1974. She replaced
Acting Postmaster Leslie Shiels last year, who
earlier replaced long time Postmaster Billy
Hargrove.
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- YVN reporters asked Decker for the
Postmaster's job description with emphasis on info
regarding their rights of access to private mail.
Decker said he would obtain it and get it to the
paper.
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- IRS public information officials in Seattle
said earlier the tax collection agency has on board
"special agents working either under psuedonyms, or
whose names aren't available under the Freedom of
Information Act."
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