After waiting 948 days, Bolinas finally got its post office back, culminating a grassroots campaign that managed to prevail in an age of radical federal budget cutting and a fast-shrinking United States Postal Service. 

The redesigned and freshly painted facility occupies the same space as the old one, in the Waterhouse building on Brighton Avenue, next to the liquor store. It operated there for more than half a century until it closed on March…