USPS suspends services in these places, with immediate effect
The agency closes three post offices for various reasons.
The summer season is certainly difficult for workers in the American postal service (USPS) who have to face mail in the stifling heat. But this can also cause customer problems because they can be faced with potential service disturbances. Already this summer, the USPS has interrupted deliveries and closed post offices across the country by chance Both Juneteenth and July 4. Serious storms and sudden floods also caused closures in dozens of facilities this month. But now the USPS suspends services in even more states. Read more to find out more about the reasons why the agency has just closed three post offices.
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The USPS suspends services in three post offices.
The postal service has finished 31,100 post offices Greaved in the United States to keep customers informed of specific facilities in their region, the agency publishes local press releases in the 50 states. They will often inform customers of the disturbances of the services in certain parts of the country, so that they can know if their mail is delivered or if their local post office is open.
But according to several of these press releases from new premises, the USPS recently suspended services in three separate facilities in two states: Indiana and Ohio.
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One of the facilities is being repaired.
USPS sent a New local version In Indiana on July 19, warn customers that the agency suspended the services in an installation of the county to wear. According to the press release, Wheeler's post office in Wheeler, Indiana, is now temporarily closed "for construction repairs".
When Better life contacted the USPS, spokesperson Desai Abdul-Razzaaq said that plumbing problems in the building have caused the need for repairs, adding that "no schedule has been established for the resumption of retail services".
As of July 19, the postal service said that Wheeler customers can access their P.O. Box Mail and use retail services at the Hobart Post Office. The two installations are located about five miles from each other.
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The two Ohio post offices reached the end of their leases.
Some Ohio customers are also affected by postal disturbances at the moment. The USPS published two separate local versions for the state on July 7 to alert residents to the closure of the installations of the Prospect cities And Commercial point . According to the agency, operations are suspended from both the prospect post office and the publication point post office due to rental problems.
"The postal service lease for this location has expired," said the USPS in both versions, adding that there is currently no information on a new location for one or the other of the facilities.
From July 15, prospect customers can access retail sales and package collection at the Richwood post office which is located 6.2 miles from the prospect office. But point -point customers will have to wait until July 22 to access operations to their alternative location - which is the Orient Post Office, located 6.8 miles from the commercial point post office.
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The installations did not always reopen when they closed for reasons related to lease.
Better life Contacted the USPS to find out if the agency is looking for a place to move the two installations of Ohio, and we will update this story with their response.
But on the basis of past instances, this does not always happen. For example, customers in Bolinas, California, have been without local post office since March, after the Bolinas Post Office has not been able to obtain a new rental agreement for its previous building, according to An online petition .
Steve Hutkins , a retired English teacher and founder of the Save the Post Office website, said the most common reasons for Post office suspensions are linked to the lease, whether the lease is terminated or not renewed either by the lessor or by the postal service itself.
"In any case, when a rental problem causes a suspension, it is rare that the post office reopens," wrote Hutkins in an article on May 5 on his website. "Of the 375 known suspensions for being caused by a rental problem, only 31 reopened."
