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For most of us, the difficulties of the American postal service (USPS) mean delayed deliveries or missing mail. Some people, however, have faced more serious obstacles to sending and receiving packages. The agency has closed post offices and Delivered operations interrupted In several different parts of the country this year for a multitude of reasons, and 2023 is likely to cause more closures, temporary and permanent. In fact, the USPS has already announced service suspensions to prepare for next year. Read the rest to find out more about the installations that will be closed in 2023.

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

Last month, the USPS confirmed that some of its rented facilities should close in 2023.

The first on the cutting block is the postal unit of the Mack's Inn contract in Island Park, Idaho. According to a press release from the USPS, this postal installation will closure , from January 15. "The current supplier has chosen to terminate his contract," said the agency.

Then on February 28, postal service will be suspended Service in his Big Sky post office in Montana. The agency said that it "would be forced to close" this installation because the current supplier has also chosen to terminate its contract. "In the case of this rented installation, the lessor chose not to renew the lease," said the USPS.

But it is not the only lease ending in 2023.

Some residents of Tennessee will soon be a post office.

The downtown post office in Johnson City will closure Next year, the local WJHL-Affilié CBS reported on December 8. Charlie Stahl , the deputy director of the city, told News Outlet media that the lease of the installation of East Main Street expires on August 31 and that there is no renewal option. According to Stahl, the city contacted USPS officials about the expiration date more than a year ago, but there are still no plans set for the future messaging service.

"Communication from the postal service has been limited," he told WJHL. "The City has offered the services of its director of economic development to identify appropriate alternative sites, but so far, the postal service has not responded to this offer."

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Johnson City's post office was In its current building For almost 50 years, according to WJHL. Postal service managers were able to renew the lease of the installation several times over the decades, but Stahl told the media in May that it would no longer be an option in 2023, because the current lease faced the termination. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It was a city building, built in 1973 specifically to be a post office, and they had 5-year rental conditions with options to renew over the past 50 years, he obviously ", did he declare. "They have renewed these leases, and it is now to the point where it will expire next year."

When Better life Contacted the postal service about the upcoming closure, the agency said it was planning to take action. Evelina Ramirez , a spokesperson for the USPS media who oversees media relations in this area, said this rented installation "will remain under normal operations" at the moment.

"We plan that operations continue at least until August 2023, because the postal service works in close collaboration with the owner of the property on a solution or by finding another location," said Ramirez. "As an integral part of the communities that we serve, the American postal service strives every day to provide excellent service to our precious customers."

The USPS spokesperson refused to comment specific details on all levels for another Johnson City post office. And the agency has not indicated whether the city customers should expect an interruption of their email service at the end of the current property lease. But other recent closures may not inspire a lot of confidence.

The postal service indicates that it currently retains more than 25,300 installations rented in the United States, however, at least two communities have lost their post office due to rental problems in the past two years and still have not obtained from new installation.

In March 2022, a postal unit under contract (CPU) in Sigurd, Utah, closed After the retirement of his entrepreneur . Consequently, residents are still without email service despite the petition and the request for modification of the officials of the city and the USPS, reported Fox 13 of the local USPS. "It seems that they have ignored us," resident Mike Roberts told the press.

In Alabama, the city of Spanish fort has been without post office since January 2021, when USPS chose not to renew The leased installation contract, according to Al.com. Representing Jerry Carl The media said that it had received "much more than 300 complaints" from residents who are frustrated by the lack of messaging service in the city accordingly. "We have repeatedly pushed the USPS to solve this problem, and we will continue to do our best to obtain the Spanish fort of the postal service it needs," said Carl.