New postmaster likes challenge

by Mary Le Arneal
Published 2/5/25

Krystal Hawkins looks at new places, new jobs as a challenge.

“If you don’t take a chance, you won’t have the opportunity to see what’s there,” she said.

Krystal Hawkins is the new postmaster at the North Bend Post Office. Being a postmaster was a goal of hers since she began working with the United States Postal Service.

She was born in Louisiana and spent her growing up years there. At age 18 she joined the Marine Corps, spent two years in Okinawa and then was stationed at Camp Pendleton.

After four years in the Marines she got out and held a variety of jobs and went to school some.

Hawkins, 37, joined the Postal Service on Nov. 30, 2015. She started off as a postal support employee in Boulder, Colorado. Next she went to Columbia, Missouri, where she supervised the retail side of the post office. There she had opportunities to help out at smaller post offices around Columbia.

Postal jobs are posted on the USPS site and any employee can apply for a position. How long they stay at a position is up to the worker.
Hawkins' goal was to get a position as a postmaster.

“When I set a goal,” she said, “I am in the process of doing it, I am doing it right then and there or I have done it.”

Her position at the North Bend Post Office is as Postmaster. Goal met.

She came to North Bend a few months ago to visit after she had been offered the job.

Her official start date was Jan. 11. For now she has found a place to live in Fremont but hopes to find a home.

Hawkins said it’s been an adjustment, learning the people, learning about the community, but she is okay with that.

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