What is in a name?
Have
you ever met anyone who shares your first name? What about someone with a
similar last name? For two employees in different parts of the country, their
names have brought them together in an unusual way.
Tracy
Murry (above) was working as a Postmaster in Scottsville, VA, when she received an email from
someone in Florida. “I couldn’t understand why I received the message, so I
sent it back with a note, ‘I think you have the wrong Tracy.’”
When
Murry became the Amherst, VA, postmaster five years later, she started to
receive more errant emails. It got to a point where one of the senders asked
Murry what she looked like: “Do you have red hair and are you white?” Murry
responded, “No, I’m pretty sure I’m not the Tracy you are looking for.”
“There
was one instance when I received an email from Florida and out of habit I
responded, ‘received by mistake,’” says Murry. “I got a response back that
said, ‘No, you didn’t. One of our employees is looking to transfer to
Virginia.’”
The
other Tracy Murray (above), Plant Manager of the Mid Florida P&DC, got a
chuckle the first time one of the misdirected emails landed in her inbox. “I
was a little taken aback and then kind of laughed about it. There’s another
Tracy Murray out there only she spells her last name a little different,
M-U-R-R-Y,” says Murray.
Murray
says the last email she received from Murry wasn’t that long ago. “Every once
in a blue moon, I’ll get a forwarded email.” Murray says she’s never heard of
this happening to anyone else “but I’m sure it has.”
“Working
at the post office in different capacities, I’ve never known another Tracy Murray
and I’ve met a lot of people,” says Murray. “If someone were to shout out,
Tracy Murray, yeah they all know me. It was ironic that she’s a postmaster
because I spent 20 years in customer service. I loved being a postmaster.”
Murry
was 24 when she began her postal career.
“I
was 17 when I started working at the post office. I wasn’t even a month out of
high school and I got in as a casual,” said Murray.
Although
the two women are located in different states and on different career paths,
they also have a lot in common. Both women either served or are serving as a
postmaster, they were Supervisors of Customer Service and both women have
daughters.
Another
thing they have in common is their appreciation for their careers: “Who would
have thought I’d be postmaster someday of my hometown,” asks Murry. “I never
thought in a million years I’d be a plant manager,” adds Murray.
