MILAN, KS 67105
106 N MONROE ST, MILAN, KS 67105
Suspension date: 12/1/2011
Reason: No qualified personnel
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PICACHO, AZ 85141
6546 E CAMINO ADELANTE, PICACHO, AZ 85141
Suspension date: 3/7/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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WASHINGTON, VA 22747
389 MAIN ST STE B, WASHINGTON, VA 22747
Suspension date: 9/13/2019
Reason: Lease terminated by Lessor
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BUTTZVILLE, NJ 07829
295 US HIGHWAY 46, BUTTZVILLE, NJ 07829
Suspension date: 6/1/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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PAINT BANK, VA 24131
16028 PAINT BANK RD, PAINT BANK, VA 24131
Suspension date: 10/31/2011
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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BELLVALE, NY 10912
268 ROUTE 17A, BELLVALE, NY 10912
Suspension date: 8/25/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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LAFAYETTE SQUARE, LA 70130
600 S MAESTRI PL, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130
Suspension date: 1/21/2020
Reason: Building Renovations
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LA PRAIRIE, IL 62346
101 E MAIN ST, LA PRAIRIE, IL 62346
Suspension date: 5/23/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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KANAWHA HEAD, WV 26228
18926 Rt 20 South Rd (MAIN ST), KANAWHA HEAD, WV 26228
Suspension date: 11/8/2010
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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UNITED NATIONS STATION, NY 10017
405 E 42ND ST OFC 2, NEW YORK, NY 10017
Suspension date: 8/30/2010
Reason: Building closed
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NOMA, FL 32452
1082 MAIN ST, NOMA, FL 32452
Suspension date: 9/4/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
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MILLADORE, WI 54454
144 MAIN ST, MILLADORE, WI 54454
Suspension date: 10/3/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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QUAIL, TX 79251
4239 FM 1547, QUAIL, TX 79251
Suspension date: 5/30/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
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BEALLSVILLE, MD 20839
19899 DARNESTOWN RD, BEALLSVILLE, MD 20839
Suspension date: 7/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
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ACADEMY, NY 12208
563 NEW SCOTLAND AVE, ALBANY, NY 12208
Suspension date: 8/12/2021
Reason: Building demolished for redevelopment
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BLOSSOM VALLEY, CA 94040
1768 MIRAMONTE AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040
Suspension date: 5/31/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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LONG LAKE, SD 57457
234 MAIN ST, LONG LAKE, SD 57457
Suspension date: 3/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated lessor
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MYRA, KY 41549
7282 HIGHWAY 610 W, MYRA, KY 41549
Suspension date: 12/20/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service/ No qualified personnel
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MCLEOD, ND 58057
10 MAIN AVE, MCLEOD, ND 58057
Suspension date: 4/10/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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BONDVILLE, IL 61815
307 S MARKET ST, BONDVILLE, IL 61815
Suspension date: 4/8/2020
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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PRIMROSE, KY 41362
1326 HIGHWAY 2017, PRIMROSE, KY 41362
Suspension date: 1/31/2011
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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LEE CARRIER UNIT, TN 32812
153 E GE PATTERSON AVE, MEMPHIS, TN 32812
Suspension date: 6/15/2011
Reason: Insufficient Customer Demand
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BONEVILLE, GA 30806
2322 BONEVILLE RD, BONEVILLE, GA 30806
Suspension date: 6/27/2007
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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GREENWOOD, TX 76246
100 MAIN ST, GREENWOOD, TX 76246
Suspension date: 6/14/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
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CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PA 19018
135 S SPRINGFIELD RD, CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PA 19018
Suspension date: 7/24/2021
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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FINANCE STATION U, IL 60637
956 E 58TH ST, CHICAGO, IL 60637
Suspension date: 5/9/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
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MALDEN, WA 99149
1 S MAIN ST, MALDEN, WA 99149
Suspension date: 9/8/2020
Reason: Damage - Fire
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WEST WARREN, OH 44485
1312 W MARKET ST, WARREN, OH 44485
Suspension date: 3/2/2013
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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UNIVERSITY, MS 38677
1 STUDENT UNION DR, UNIVERSITY, MS 38677
Suspension date: 8/1/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service
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CHATAWA, MS 39632
1104 SAINT MARY DR, CHATAWA, MS 39632
Suspension date: 12/3/2012
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns
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In February 2022 the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket to address the issue of post offices that have been under emergency suspension for an extended period of time. The inquiry is not about individual post office suspensions or closings. Rather, it will examine “issues impeding the Postal Service’s progress in resolving the suspended post offices in a timely manner” and consider “procedures or courses of action for how the Postal Service may expeditiously resolve suspended post offices.”
The Commission has indicated that it’s also interested in “data analysis related to the suspended post offices, including, but not limited to, the spatial analysis of the suspended post offices.” The inquiry will also consider what might be done to prevent backlogs from developing in the future.
In its quarterly and annual updates on the suspensions, the Postal Service provides the Commission with lists of the suspended offices. The updates contain information about when and why the offices were suspended and, at least in the case of the older suspensions, their current status in the discontinuance process. The lists are helpful, but they don’t provide much information — not even the address of the post office.
To provide a clearer picture of the suspensions and to lend some transparency to the process of resolving them as it unfolds, we’ve created a Suspension Dashboard. It includes a page for each of the 450 offices under suspension at the end of FY 2021, with information about its suspension status, community demographics and facility data. The dashboard also provides the address for the suspended office and, when possible, a street view of the building. There’s also a map showing the post office location and another showing nearby alternate facilities. A national map shows all the suspended offices. It has four layers corresponding to when the suspension took place: (1) 1984-2012 (i.e., pre-POStPlan suspensions); (2) FY2012-FY2016; (3) FY2017-2020; and (4) FY2021.
Update, May 2023: In March 2022, the Commission received comments from the Postal Service, the PRC’s Public Representative, and Save the Post Office’s Steve Hutkins as part of the Public Inquiry. The Commission did nothing more on the inquiry until April 2023, when it issued an Information Request asking the Postal Service to describe the extent to which it is “considering creating and maintaining a publicly-available dashboard of suspended post offices.” The Postal Service responded by saying that it “questions the marginal utility of such a project, especially in light of the costs (some of them recurring) that it would entail.” The Postal Service “does not currently plan to create a public-facing dashboard.”
To learn more more:
Notice and Order Providing an Opportunity to Comment on the Postal Service’s Process for Resolving Suspended Post Offices, PRC, Feb. 3, 2022
“U.S. Postal Service Emergency Suspension Process,” USPS OIG, Sept. 24, 2018
“Post Office discontinuances and suspensions: A decade in review,” Save the Post Office, Feb. 26, 2018
“A Thousand Post Office Suspensions in Review,” Save the Post Office, May 5, 2023
An archive of posts about suspensions on Save the Post Office is here.
A Thousand Suspensions
The following map and list contain the 665 post offices that were suspended as of the end of FY 2016 (the “backlog” the PRC has been trying to get the Postal Service to resolve), plus 301 post offices that were suspended during FY 2017-2022 and still suspended as of the end of FY 2022 (and a few other miscellaneous suspensions as well). Note that some of these reopened during the first half of FY 2023. View on Google Docs.
Most Recent Update Lists
The following spreadsheet contains the most recent list shared with the PRC as of Q3 FY2023. View on Google Docs. There’s more about this update on the PRC website, uploaded to STPO, here.
The following spreadsheet contains the list shared with the PRC as of End of FY 2022. View on Google Docs.