bdtonline.com: The Pocahontas, Virginia, Post Office will close its doors on Monday, and it is up in the air as to when, or if, it will reopen at its current location. Jerry Gravely, vice mayor of Pocahontas, said the post office was notified Wednesday of the closure, effective at the close of business April 25. “They did an inspection (of the building) … Read More
Sparland Post Office to close over lease issue
Journal Star: The Sparland Post Office will close April 30 after losing its lease in the two-story brick building at 115 Center St., near Illinois Routes 17 and 29. “When it was time to renew the lease, the owner decided not to renew it,” said Beverly Howard, a U.S. Postal Service customer relations and communications coordinator in Chicago. “We have tried … Read More
Senator accuses USPS of using “emergency suspensions” to close post offices
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is calling out the U.S. Postal Service for its use of “emergency suspension” authority to close down Missouri post offices, potentially circumventing the standard process that requires input from communities that would feel the effects of a closure and notifications to Congress. “I recently became aware of a number of post offices in Missouri that were … Read More
Lightening strikes twice in the Ozarks: Another post office gets suspended
During fiscal year 2015, the Postal Service closed about 90 post offices for emergency suspensions. Five of them were in Missouri, and one was in the Ozark Mountains. This week signs appeared on the door of another Ozark post office saying it would be closed soon too. In January 2015, the Postal Service suspended the post office in Rockbridge, which … Read More
Emergency Suspensions of Post Offices in FY 2015
According to its Annual Compliance Reports to the Postal Regulatory Commission, the Postal Service did not discontinue a single post office in FY 2014 and FY 2015. Thanks to public protest and pressure from Congress, there appears to be an unofficial moratorium on post office closures. If Senator Carper’s IPOST bill becomes law, this moratorium will become official and no … Read More
Blencoe, IA post office reopens after temporary (two-year) suspension
The Blencoe Post Office is again open for business, nearly two years after the small Monona County town "temporarily" lost its post office for an emergency suspension. The Post Office reopened on Wednesday in a new location across the street from the former Post Office at 501 Main St. The U.S. Postal Service temporarily shut down the post office in … Read More
‘Emergency suspension’ closes the doors to PO in Nemo, TX
Empty, bare and “For Rent” is how the building formerly utilized as the Nemo Post Office now sits. There are rumors – depending on the generation asked – of the post office previously being housed in a nearby corner store and even those who claim it was once housed in a house. Either of which may be a necessary place … Read More
The Year in Review: The Postal Service submits its Annual Compliance Report for FY 2015
Earlier this week the Postal Service submitted its FY 2015 Annual Compliance Report (ACR) to the Postal Regulatory Commission. Over the next few weeks, the Commission will review the report, request more information, give stakeholders an opportunity to comment, and then, sometime in March, issue its own Annual Compliance Determination (ACD) report. The USPS ACR is on the PRC website here; last … Read More
What happened in Petworth? A DC Suspension Story
[Note: Please see the correction/update at the end of this story.] The post office in Petworth, a community in Washington, DC, closed at the end of July. The closing didn’t get much attention, but the story of what happened in Petworth is a useful case study of how the Postal Service has been conducting suspensions, closures, and relocations. The Postal … Read More
No discontinuances, but more post office suspensions and relocations
As a result of all the public protest, the Postal Service has stayed away from post office closings over the past two years, and if legislation recently proposed by Senator Tom Carper were to be approved as is, there would be a moratorium on all post office closings for the next five years. But opposition to discontinuing post offices is … Read More
Two post offices closed in Kentucky for emergency suspensions
The Postal Service suspended service in Almo, Kentucky after employees smelled sewage and noticed a spongy feeling to the floor, which may mean that mean mold. The Postal Service will spend the next few days trying to find and fix the problem. There is no time-line to reopen the post office. PO boxes have been moved to the post office … Read More
Historic Courthouse post office in Danville suspended over paint problem
The historic Courthouse post office on Main Street in Danville, Virginia, had its hours cut to four a day back in August. The Danville P.O. wasn't part of POStPlan, but apparently reducing hours at post offices isn't limited to the 13,000 facilities on the POStPlan list. Now the Danville post office is closing completely for an emergency suspension. The … Read More
Hobson TX PO suspended, no qualified personnel to run it
The post office in Hobson, Texas, was closed for an emergency suspension because they couldn't find someone to operate it. The office is on the POStPlan list, and it was one of the first to have its hours reduced. Back on November 17, 2012, the hours were reduced to two a day. On Oct. 18, 2013, less than a year later, … Read More
Historic Plant City FL post office closing permanently
In June, the Postal Service temporarily closed the post office in Plant City, Florida, for an emergency suspension due to deterioration in the basement, discovered on a routine inspection. Now the Postal Service is doing a discontinuance review to close the post office permanently. The post office was built in 1935, and it has problems like a leaky roof and … Read More
Alton KS post office suspended for building conditions
The Postal Service has closed the post office in Alton, Kansas, for an emergency suspension because of what it describes as "deteriorating building conditions." Alton's Mayor Eldon Hartzler thinks they just want to close the post office, period. The Alton post office was on the list of 3,700 facilities slated for closure in 2011, then it was put on the … Read More