Issue 3. 2022 23 Utah's #1 Small Business Lender. Brandon Burt | Owner, Burt Brothers SBA 504 loan recipient Learn more at: burtbrothers.com BIG THINGS COME IN SMALL BUSINESSES 801 .474.3232 | mwsbf .com SBA 504 LOAN. ZIONS BANK CELEBRATES RE-OPENING OF HISTORIC PARCEL POST BANK After two years of extensive renovations, Zions Bank celebrated the re-opening of its historic Parcel Post Bank with a ribbon cutting and community celebration in August. Vernal City Manager Quinn Bennion, Zions Bank President and CEO Scott Anderson and region president Charles Balch spoke at the ceremony for the newly renovated building, and Zions Bank presented donations to Thompsen House of Hope and the Uintah Ute Marching Band, which performed at the event. Known as the “building shipped by mail,” the Parcel Post Bank garnered national attention while it was being built in 1916. Vernal businessman William H. Coltharp found that he could ship the bricks by U.S. mail for less than half the price of sending them by freight wagon. He shipped 80,000 individually wrapped bricks by parcel post 407 miles from Salt Lake City through Mack, Colorado, to Vernal. The shipment overwhelmed the U.S. Postal Service, prompting new postal regulations nationwide. Zions Bank has operated in Vernal since 1973 when it acquired the Bank of Vernal. The Parcel Post Bank is listed on both the Utah State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. Parcel Post Ribbon Cutting
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