Virginia Thompson checks all the boxes

Popular Rapidan postal clerk is first Peep in Byrd Street's "We the Peeps"

Virginia Thompson says she was “scared to death” when she began working at the Rapidan Post Office two years ago. There had been lots of staff turnover before she arrived, and she thought skeptics might look at her and think, “‘Let’s see how long she lasts.’”

But Thompson, a Culpeper resident, had no reason to worry. She quickly won the hearts of her cu…