Batter Up: Jupiter Postmaster Young

Denise Young

There’s a new Postmaster in the spring training home to the World Series pennant winning Florida Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals.

Up at bat is Jupiter Postmaster Denise Young. Prior to this position, she served as Manager, Customer Services, Palm Beach Gardens Branch, and most recently, as Acting Manager, Post Office Operations in the West Palm Beach 334/349 area.

As Jupiter Postmaster, Young is administratively and operationally responsible for 117 employees who work at the Jupiter Main Office and Tequesta Branch.

Young joined the U.S. Postal Service as a Multi-Position Letter Sorting Machine (MPLSM) clerk in Indiana in 1992. In four months, Young was detailed as Acting Supervisor, Distribution Operations in the Fort Wayne, IN, Processing and Distribution Center. Eight months later, after demonstrating exemplary leadership and outstanding performance in the Automation Operation, Young was promoted to Supervisor, Distribution  Operations. In 2000, Young transferred to South Florida and was a Supervisor, Customer Services at the Boynton Beach Main Office.

During her 23-year career, Young accepted several detail assignments of increasing levels of responsibility, including Acting Manager, Distribution Operations at the West Palm Beach Processing and Distribution Center and then Acting Manager, Customer Services at several West Palm Beach locations. Young was promoted to  Manager, Customer Services at Fort Lauderdale’s Melrose Vista Branch and Tamarac Branch. She then accepted a detail as Officer In Charge, Lawrenceville, GA.

Young is an exercise enthusiast and has two adult children.

“Please join me in welcoming Denise to her new assignment and in wishing her continued success in her postal career,” said West Palm Beach Officer In Charge Robert Weiser.