Wieging creates postal web site

By Mary Grothause, The Delphos Herald
Published:  Wednesday, July 2, 2008 (1 year, 8 months ago)
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Andrew Wieging checks out the web site he created for the Delphos Postal Museum for his Eagle Scout project.DELPHOS — One Delphos- area Boy Scout striving toward his Eagle rank has created something unusual, a web site for the Delphos Post Office Museum.
Andrew Wieging, son of Robert and Lorraine Wieging of Elida, first began the project in February, 2007.
“I had several ideas for my Eagle Scout project and finally decided on creating the web site after talking to Gary Levitt. It is required to put in at least 80 hours on the Eagle Scout project but I lost count after 181 hours,” he said.
Wieging, active in Scouts for 11 years, first as a Cub Scout in first grade, then as a Boy Scout from fifth grade on, was required to come up with a project that did not benefit the Boy Scouts.
He basically learned the entire computer code for Notebook and had to get the domain registered to accomplish his project. Wieging, who is also active in sports and band at St. John’s High School, took the time to carefully prepare his Eagle Scout project.
The web site, www.postalhistorymuseum.org, comprises Exhibit Galleries, Former Delphos Postmasters, Discontinued Post Offices, Games, Directions, Links, Acknowledgments and Contact Us. Viewers can check out former postmasters from 1846 to the present, find discontinued post offices in the Tri-County area and play on-line games from the National Post Office Museum.
Wieging presented his project to a review board on Feb. 26, 2008. He had an interview on May 8 and learned his project was accepted and sent on to national review by the Boy Scout Board on May 22.
Not only has the web site drawn interest in tours such as Bluffton and Spencerville schools, anyone can pull up the web site nationwide to check the history of the nation’s second-largest postal museum.
And for all of Wieging’s hard work and efforts, he was honored in a ceremony Sunday at the Annex, where he  received the coveted Eagle Scout rank.

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