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Freshly out of a busy holiday season, the American postal service (USPS) is already preparing for the new year with a number of new changes . But although these updates have come with a warning, the agency was also forced to make changes that come into force immediately. Now the USPS closes 50 post offices in the United States, without any immediate information at the time they could reopen. Read more to discover the latest temporary mass firmness of the postal service.

Read this then: USPS makes even more modifications to your mail, from January 22 .

Postal facilities have been faced with a litany of problems recently, forcing mass closings.

In mid-December, the USPS temporarily closed About 200 post offices "due to the weather". The closures extended in five states that fought against a massive snowstorm at the time: Minnesota, Nebraska, Northern Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

A few weeks later, the postal service announced that Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota were confronted temporary postal closures again. The agency closed a total of 115 installations in the three states on January 3, citing weather problems again.

At the time, The Washington Post reported that one " Chain of powerful winter storms "moved to the center of the United States, pushing record quantities of snowfall in some parts of northeast of Nebraska, south-east of south and southwest Dakota of Minnesota.

Unfortunately, the closures do not stop there.

All the post offices affected in Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota have since reopened, but customers are now experiencing problems.

The last update of USPS service alert website Indicates that the agency has simply closed a large number of facilities, affecting two new states: Nevada and California. A total of 50 post offices were closed on January 9 and January 10, but a state is the biggest.

Nevada faces a single closure - the postal service closed the Meyers -Snow post office in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada, January 9. But the other 49 closures are in California. The installations temporarily closed in this state include the Lakeshore post office, the topanga post office, the Olema post office, the canyon post office and the Soquet post office.

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Again, it goes largely to the weather.

The Meyers-Snow installation in Nevada and the canyon post office in California are closed "due to violent winter storms", according to the USPS. The postal service also announced the closure of the Soquet post office and the Olema post office in California on January 9. According to separate alerts, the installation of Soquel is closed "due to safety problems" and the installation of Olema is "closed due to flood."

On January 10, the agency updated its service alerts to include the Lakeshore post office and the topanga post office. These two Californian installations are "temporarily closed due to the weather conditions", but the USP also cited concerns concerning the "road conditions" for the closure of Topanga. During these closings, the USPS said that "mail and retail services" of Lakeshore customers will be available at the Big Creek post office, while Topanga customers should go to the post office of Malibu.

Retail operations in the 45 remaining post office offices in California were all temporarily closed due to power outages ", according to the USPS. The installations affected by this include those of cities like Burson, Orleans and Willow Creek. "Offices provide mail delivery and retail services in manual mode until food is restored," said the agency.

This recent temporary mass closure affects only customers in two states, but other facilities are still closed at the moment.

In October, the postal service temporarily closed the Pemberton post office in Ohio and the Stanley post office in New York. Both were closed " Due to security problems “While the installation of Pemberton deals with damage caused by fires and the Stanley post office is undergoing roof repairs. The two remain closed.

In November, the USPS Suspended all operations At the Wisner post office in Louisiana. This installation also needs repairs and will remain closed "until the repairs can be carried out", according to the agency.

And just this month, postal service temporarily closed installations In North Dakota and Michigan. In Northern Dakota, Stanton's post office was closed "due to water -caused damage and asbestos reduction," said the agency. In Michigan, the Orchards Malls post office in Benton Harbor was "closed due to safety problems," the USPS said. This could also be the result of damage caused by water, because The Herald-Palladium reported that the entire Orchards shopping center is currently closed to customers After a main burst of water.