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Customers' frustrations with the American postal service (USPS) have increased in the past year thanks to aggravationDelivery delays And lines always long at the post office. But if it's the worst of your mail problems, consider yourself lucky. Some residents across the country face greater obstacles to sending and receiving mail, because the postal service had toClose a number of post offices Recently, both temporarily and permanently. Now, more facilities are faced with closures. Read the rest to find out where the USPS suspends the services in January.

Read this then:USPS get rid of it permanently, on January 31.

While the USPS manages most post offices in the United States directly, the agency also rents several facilities to external suppliers as postal contracts (CPU). Thanks to contracts with the postal service, "these units provideRetail products at full service And services to postal customers at USPS prices [but] they are hosted in a supplier establishment and are operated and managed by supplier employees, "explains the agency.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

It turns out that certain communities have only one processor on which to count - which becomes an important problem, because the number of these installations decreases. AccordingThe last report From the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), 94 processors have closed throughout the county between 2020 and 2021. And since 2019, a total of 202 contracted installations have been closed.

"The processors areNot only closure At a faster rate than they open, but they close to a very substantial clip, especially since the start of the pandemic, "Evan Kalish, an USPS expert and founder of the Popular postlandia postal blog, told Newsy on November 23.

Now another community loses the postal installation on which it is based.

The loss of these contracted installations can cause serious problems to customers.

Residents of the communities like Sigurd, Utah, spent more than two years without delivery of mail at home and were forced to drive 30 minutes just to recover their mail after closing the processor, Newsy reported.

Now the postal service has just announced that another processor is on the blocking. AccordingNovember 18 press release From the agency, the postal unit of the Mack's Inn contract in Island Park, Idaho, is expected to close the new year.

The USPS said that the postal installation of the Mack's Inn Resort would close, as of January 15. ""For more convenience for its customers, the postal service offers processors across the country, like the one located in Mack's Inn, ID, "The agency added." No delivery will be assigned because the processor offers only the retail distribution services and the post office service. ""

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As Kalish said in Newsy, contractual installations are relatively easy to close. "It can really take a single person, it can be the person who exploits the place, it could be one person somewhere in the hierarchy of postal service itself," he said. "And that's all you really need, because contractual operations are not protected by many of the same protocols as regular post offices."

In fact, the USPS said that closing the Mack's Inn is the direct result of the installation that loses its supplier. "The current supplier has chosen to terminate his contract and we will be forced to close this processor," said the agency.

But the USPS added that it "does not provide any interruption of the mail service" for Mack's Inn processor customers because it is looking for another supplier.

"The postal service leads regular discussions with entrepreneurs concerning the service and the conditions and we are full of providing services in another place but indeterminate," said the agency. "Postal service is ready to work with local companies in the region to explore viable options for another processor. This is an excellent stable income opportunity for a business owner who also provides precious community service . "

The installation of Mack's Inn is only one of the many processors that should soon close.

The postal service confirmed earlier this month than the post offices contracted in two other cities will close:Lake Isabella, California; andBig Sky, Montana. The Mount Mesa processor at Lake Isabella firm this week, and from November 30, all the retail and PO sales services provided in this installation "will be temporarily moved" at the post office near Lake Isabella, according to the USPS.

The agency said thatThe current supplier From the Mount Mesa post office "decided to terminate" his contract with the USPS. "The postal service is actively in the process of awareness in the local community for a new supplier," said the agency.

The current supplier of CPU Big Skydecided to terminate His contract with the postal service, according to the agency. Consequently, the postal service said that it "would be forced to close this processor" and to suspend all the services provided by the installation, from February 28. "In the case of this rented installation, the lessor chose not to renew the lease," said the USPS.

Kbzk affiliated with CBS in Bozeman, Montana reported that the agency had foughtInstallation size on With the supplier of the Big Sky CPU, the real estate company Gallatin Partners.