USPS closes more post offices, with immediate effect
Dangerous meteorological concerns cause new closures from the agency.
THE American postal service (USPS) does its best to bring us our mail almost daily, as well as to provide regular access to postal installations across the United States, but there are certain things out of the agency's control, including, well Sure, the weather. Last year, the USPS was forced to close Hundreds of facilities in the south because of Hurricane Ian. Then, last winter, customers in the country saw their post offices close temporarily due to dangerous snowstorms. Now, new meteorological concerns cause dozens of additional closures, with several new additions which had just announced. Read the rest to discover the latest USPS service suspensions.
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The USPS has already closed several post offices in Vermont.
Vermont postal customers were faced with the disturbances of the services this week. In an update of July 10 to his Service alert website , the USPS announced that it had "temporarily closed" 25 different post offices within the State.
This first set of closed installations was located in the following towns and villages: Barnard, Bethel, Bondville, Bridgewater, Cavendish, Cuttingsville, East Wallingford, Gaysville, Jamaica, Killington, Londonderry, Ludlow, Mount Holly, Pérou, Pittsfield, Plymouth , Protorsville, Querchee, South Londonderry, Sharon, Stockbridge, Taftsville, Tunbridge, Weston and Woodbury.
Two days later, on July 12, the USPS announced that it had reopened 20 of these post offices. But the operations did not resume in the facilities of Bridgewater, Ludlow, South Londonderry, Weston and Woodbury.
On the same day, the postal service also revealed that it had closed an additional post office in Vermont - this time in Johnson, in the installation of the 115 Lower Main Street.
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The installations were closed because of the floods.
In two of the postal service alerts on July 12, the agency said that the Vermont post offices were temporarily "due to the floods". At the start of this week, the state was struck with Intense rain storms This flooded the streets and caused evacuations and closures in the capital of Montpellier, CNN reported.
"Make no mistake, the devastation and the floods that we live through Vermont are historical and catastrophic," said the governor of Vermont. Phil Scott told journalists on July 11.
USPS strategic communications specialist Steve Doherty also confirmed that it was the reasoning of post office closures in a previous declaration For Better life .
"A large part of the Vermont and the New Hampshire parties are faced with serious floods due to recent storms," he said. "Many stations that are not underwater are inaccessible due to the washed down roads."
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The agency is now closing more locations.
Currently, there are six post offices previously closed at Vermont which have not yet reopened: Bridgewater, Johnson, Ludlow, South Londonderry, Weston and Woodbury. And in the last update of service alerts on July 13, the USPS announced that it closes four other facilities in the state.
These new closures have an impact on post offices in Cambridge, East Barre, Greensboro Bend and Montpelier, which represents a total of 10 installations currently closed in Vermont. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Better life Contacted the USPS to confirm that the new post office closings are due to the floods, and we will update this story with the agency's response. But the National Weather Service (NWS) reported on July 14 that some parts of the Vermont were already under New flood warnings , as more precipitation is scheduled for this weekend.
In her previous declaration, Doherty confirmed that the agency is working on "the implementation of operations continuation plans" for some of the post offices, noting that they may need to move services for certain facilities "to neighboring communities until the water consists and we can start the cleaning operations necessary to put them in place. "
"We know that the state officials, local and federally work with diligence to reopen the roads, which will allow us to move the mail throughout the state," added Doherty. "As the areas are made accessible, we will try the delivery of mail where and when it is sure to do so."
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Another state was also affected by floods.
It is not only the vermont that deals with this problem. The storm also struck the Hudson valley in New York and caused Sudden deadly floods in the zone, The New York Times reported. For this reason, the USPS also closed two post offices in New York this week.
On July 10, the postal service announced that the operations were suspended from the Highland Falls post office. Then two days later, on July 12, the agency revealed that the same thing had just happened at the Bear Mountain post office.
A USPS spokesperson previously confirmed For Better life that the two installations had suffered water damage from recent floods.
"We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience caused and plan that the post offices of Bear Mountain and Highland Falls have reopened as soon as possible," they said.
