USPS suspends services in these places, with immediate effect
California and Louisiana customers face new postal disruptions.
We expect what mail service , even if reality is a little more dique than that. It turns out that brief delays in deliveries are not the only thing we have to worry about. Although the American postal service (USPS) strives to always maintain operations without interruption, this is not possible all the time. From animal attacks to dangerous bad weather, there are many uncontrollable factors that can make postal service dangerous for employees and customers. Now the USPS will once again suspect the service to new challenges. Read the rest to find out more about the latest closures.
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The USPS suspends the services in two different states.
The USPS regularly provides information to customers on disturbances affecting agency operations via its line Service alerts tool. Their latest alerts indicate that the service has just been suspended in post offices in California and Louisiana. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The postal service temporarily closed an installation in Gasquet, California, according to an update of March 12 on the service alerts website.
The next day, on March 13, the agency announced that it had closed another post office in California - this time in the city of Spreckels - and an establishment in Louisiana, the post office of Heflin.
One of California's post offices closed its doors due to construction damage.
Gasquet's customers deal with the consequences of a car accident. In a separate Local press release , the USPS said that the installation "had temporarily closed its doors after suffering significant construction damage caused by a truck of contract crashing in the post office" March 11.
California Highway Patrol said the driver had lost control From the truck, which was carrying Mail from Medford, Oregon, reported KRCR Local ABC.
The driver was taken to the injury hospital, the media said. But "no one was inside the building at the time of the accident," said postal service.
During the suspension, Gasquet's customers are directed to the Smith River post office for retail and mail collection services. Street delivery will not, however, be assigned.
In its press release, the USPS said that "this is an active evolution situation", giving no indication of a specific calendar for repairs.
"The postal service sincerely apologizes for any drawback that customers can live and we remain determined to deliver to our communities daily," said the USPS. "We greatly appreciate the patience of our customers during this unforeseen emergency relocation."
Better life contacted the USPS for more information on a potential calendar, but has not yet heard.
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The other Californian installation has been closed for winter storms.
The other recent closure in California involves dangerous weather conditions - which is not uncommon this winter. In recent weeks, the USPS has suspended services in several parts of California for the same reason. On March 13, the postal service said that the Spreckel post office was "closed due to violent winter storms".
THE concern For Spreckels at the moment flood storms, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported. City residents were invited to consider looking for higher land after a flood warning for the nearby Salinas river, according to the newspaper.
"We keep an eye on the Salinas river", spokesperson for the county of Monterey Nicholas PasCulli said to the newspaper. "It's a great concern for us."
The postal service directs Spreckel customers at the Salinas post office for collection and retail services during closing. Better life contacted the agency to find out if a calendar has been ready for the reopening of the Spreckel post office, but has not yet heard.
The postal service did not give much understanding of the closure of Louisiana.
In Louisiana, postal customers are also faced with a new closure. In its alert, the USPS said that Heflin's post office was "temporarily closed due to a security problem". The agency also said that the suspension of services was the result of "security problems" in a Local press release , but no context has been provided.
Better life Contacted the USPS for more information on specific security problems at stake, but has not yet heard.
Meanwhile, Heflin customers can always go to the establishment for their postal needs. The postal service has created a mobile retail unit (MRU) in the parking lot of the Heflin post office, where the retail window and the P.O. The box services will be carried out.
"We apologize for this drawback for our customers and hope that the office will be fully functional again as soon as possible," the USPS said in its press release.