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When it comes to getting yourMail delivered Six days a week or stamps being the same price wherever you buy them, you have one thing to thank: the American postal service (USPS)Universal service obligation (USO). This requirement guarantees that the agency provides a regular messaging service to everyone across the country, but in reality, it is easier to say than to do. Despite this obligation, the USPS is authorized to adjust its operations when it is deemed necessary, as if a hurricane heads to the United States or aFactor safety is compromised by an aggressive animal in freedom. From now on, a different problem is about to have an impact on the agency's ability to provide certain resources, which leaves some residents. Read the rest to find out where the USPS suspends the services permanently in February.

Read this then:USPS plans this long, dreaded change in your mail, from January 22.

Your local post office may not belong to the USPS. The agency offersUnits postal contract (CPU), which are installations belonging to suppliers or linked to suppliers who "provide postal products and services to the public". According to the post & plot, the processors areusually placed in areas This may not have a physical branch belonging to USPS.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"The placement of a processor is motivated by the need for access points to additional postal services in a community," said the USPS on its website. "Local postal resources determine this need."

But the stability of these contract offices under contract has been a concern for some time. In 2012,Steve Hutkins, a retired English teacher from New York and creator of Savethepostoffice.com, reported that the contract offices were closedat a faster rate That they opened, the number of processors having decreased regularly for some time.

In this spirit, it is not surprising that postal service has new problems with entrepreneurs.

The problem with closing processors has continued in the last decade and now a new set of customers is in danger.

On November 7, the USPSpublished a press release announcing that he will suspect the Big Sky post office service, Montana, next year. This installation is a processor and the current supplier has decided to terminate its contract with the postal service after recent negotiations. Consequently, the agency said that it "would be forced to close this processor", from February 28.

"In the case of this rented installation, the lessor chose not to renew the lease," said the USPS. "In order to minimize the disturbances of our precious customers, local postal management will inform customers of the proposed closure and offer options for their dissemination needs, which will meet our universal service obligation."

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The postal service said that it offers processors in the United States "as convenience for its customers," like that of Big Sky, and it "regularly conducts discussions with entrepreneurs concerning the service and conditions" in these offices of job. Since 2002, the Big Sky Post Officehas been managed By real estate company Gallatin Partners, according to KBZK affiliated to CBS in Bozeman, Montana. The media reported at the end of October that the company and the USP were currently locked in a battle on the size of the installation.

Al Malinowski, Gallatin Partners' vice-president, told KBZK that when the post office had moved to its current installation, it was half of the square area of ​​what the developers had initially planned. "We had a decision there, we knew that our new post office in 2002 would become exceeded earlier than if it was 4,000 square feet," he said.

Gallatin Partners said he had contacted the postal service several times to request that the post office be transferred to a larger building. But an USPS company manager told KBZK that on the basis of its population, Big Sky does not need a larger post office.

"We did not arrive anywhere with this request, and it therefore seemed that we were not going to progress unless a decision is made to stop making the current installation work," said Malinowski. "We let them know that we are no longer willing to provide service in this installation without a long -term plan in place to move in a greater installation which can better manage the needs of our community."

The USPS does not seem to move on its position. In its press release, the postal agency said it was looking for another supplier in order to continue to offer uninterrupted service to the Big Sky community. "The postal service is ready to work with local companies in the region to explore viable options for another processor," said the USPS. "We recognize that with many of our vacation offices, seasonal volumes and populations can be a challenge, however, we are intended to provide service in another place without determination. We do not plan any interruption of the service messaging. "

But if history is an indication, the future needs for sending the Big Sky community could be more uncertain than the postal service indicates it. A processor in Sigurd, Utah,Closed in March 2020 After the retirement of his entrepreneur, and now more than two years later, residents are still without post office. "When we asked the community to operate a contract post unit in 2020, we did not receive an answer," said USPS spokespersonSpurgeon rod said Fox 13 in July 2022.

Nor is it a problem limited to Montana or UTAH. In Alabama, the city of the Spanish fortwas without A post office since January 2021 when the USPS has chosen not to renew the contract for the rented installation, according to Al.com. And in March this year, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)published a report indicating that the number of processors went from 2,022 during the 2019 financial year to 1,820 during the last financial year 2021.

Thus, in just two years, 202 postal installations contracted have closed across the United States - and certain communities have been left without post office.