Tuesday, August 4, 2009

List of Post Offices to Close Growing Steadily

Post office is in big financial trouble

With fewer post offices, mail carriers will have farther to go.

With fewer post offices, mail carriers will have farther to go.

If you are looking for a list of all the post offices to close, that doesn’t exist yet. If you are looking for a list of post offices that might close, I’ve got you covered. If you’re looking for a partial list of post offices to close, I’ve got that too.

If you’re looking for a list of post offices to close, you know that dire financial straits at the United States Postal Service are causing the government to have to shut down several post offices. I guess they don’t have anymore emergency money to keep them all afloat.

How many post offices to close?

I have seen a few different numbers regarding how many locations are on the list of post offices to close, but ABC News reports:

Of the 32,741 post offices in America, the Postal Service is reviewing about 3,200, or nearly 10 percent. The Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent agency, posted 700 of them on a 12-page list at its Web site, www.prc.gov.

The supposed “list of post offices to close,” which you can view by clicking that link, still is titled “United States Postal Service Station/Branches Identified for Full Study,” so no official has yet stated that all the locations on that list of post offices to close will definitely be shut down. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "List of Post Offices to Close Growing Steadily"

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