John Riggins was Riggins’ first mailman, carrying the mail from Grangeville to New Meadows by horseback and sometimes by foot. By 1893, he operated a stage line from Grangeville to Fiddle Creek, north of Riggins and the end of the wagon road. He then went by horseback from Fiddle Creek to New Meadows. In 1901, John Riggins’ son, Dick, established the town’s first post office in his new Hotel Riggins and served as the first postmaster. Over the years, the post office was moved from building to building – back and forth across Main Street – depending on whom the postmaster was at the time. In 1966, Riggins teacher and civic leader, Gus Carlson, built the present post office building on Main Street.