MERCED, CA — On Friday, June 21, 2013, 11:00 a.m., Tony Renon will raise his right hand to take the official oath of office as Postmaster at the Merced Post Office, 2434 M Street, Merced, CA 95348. Manager of Post Office Operations Bobbi Riley will administer the oath of office.
Renon started his U.S. Postal Service career in 1990 as a letter carrier at Colonial Station in Sacramento. A year later, he transferred to Colorado as a window and distribution clerk in the Woodland Park Post Office. Soon after, he became a mail handler at the Colorado Springs Mail Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC). In 1992, he started his managerial tract as an acting supervisor at the P&DC, and was promoted in 1994 as a supervisor of distribution operations. In 2006, he transferred to New Mexico as a station manager, and later that year became a supervisor of mails at the Albuquerque mail processing facility. He was promoted to Taos NM Postmaster in 2011, and was soon assigned as the officer-in-charge of the much larger Farmington NM Post Office, the position he held until being selected as the Merced Postmaster.
“It is a great honor to be a Postmaster,” said Renon. “Postmasters are an elite group, following in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, our first Postmaster General.”
Renon, 51, has two children, Cory Michael, 27, and Brittany Rose, 21. Renon loves coaching baseball, and is a Little League baseball coach. He resides in Merced. Renon joined the United States Marine Corp in 1981, and over his eight years in the Corps he was stationed in Camp Lejeune NC, Okinawa, Cherry Point NC and Camp Pendleton CA.
As Merced Postmaster, Renon oversees 98 employees who process and deliver daily mail volume of more than 60,000 pieces to 36,377 delivery points (addresses), on 41 city routes and 1,836 Post Office boxes between the Bell and Main Post Office stations.
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