PORT ANGELES – The owner has claimed the portion of a neon sign that was suspiciously packaged and left unattended in the U.S. Post Office lobby Tuesday evening in Port Angeles.
The discovery of the package prompted an evacuation, a visit by the State Patrol Bomb Squad and a First Street closure that lasted for nearly five hours.
“He walked in to mail it and got sidetracked and forgot to mail it,” said Jim Vach, a postal inspector and spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service.
“He didn’t intend to do this; he didn’t intend to cause any alarm.”
The neon sign was taken to the regional headquarters in Seattle on Tuesday night after the bomb squad opened the package and saw that it was not a dangerous item.
