USPS suspends services in these places, effective now

The agency now closes post offices and interrupts deliveries in California.


THE American postal service (USPS) has tens of thousands of installations and letters transporters located across the country to meet our almost daily mail needs. But if your local post office is not open during regular hours or if your mail has not been delivered one day when it is usually, there is probably a good reason. It turns out that dangerous conditions now affect services in several areas. Read the rest to find out where and why the USPS suspends the services.

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The USPS suspends services in several post offices in California.

The post office on High Street on a sunny summer day
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Different interruptions can cause service problems for postal customers. But the USPS tries to warn customers when it happens on its Service alert website . With this tool, you can find "current and frequently updated information to find out if the mail is delivered in your neighborhood or if your local post office is open," explains the postal service.

THE Most recent alerts indicate that the USPS has suspended the services in three post offices in California. Depending on the updates, the affected facilities are located in the cities of Scott Bar, Seiad Valley and Washington.

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The three installations were closed due to forest fires.

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A dangerous natural disaster caused the postal service decision to close the facilities of the Scott bar, the Seiad valley and Washington. According to alerts from August 16 and 17, the three California post offices are currently "temporarily closed due to forest trail".

Scott Bar and Seiad Valley are located nearby The northern part of the state, just near the border of Oregon. These two cities fight against the head fire, which burns in the national forest of Klamath, Siskiyou's daily news reported. As of August 17, this forest fire increased to around 4,000 acres, and nothing was contained, according to the newspaper. Evacuation orders are also currently in place for people living in the region.

Meanwhile, the city of Washington faces a Separate forest fire Called the fire of the highway, which, according to officials, may have been caused by a lightning strike, local KCRA reported to the NBC. Although smaller than the head fire, the highway fire also caused evacuation orders for those of Washington, according to Kcra.

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The delivery services were also affected in these areas.

Fullerton, California / USA - September 3, 2020: A USPS (United States Parcel Service) mail truck makes a delivery.
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The USPS said customers of the three California post offices can access retail services in alternative installations during closings. But according to distinct local press releases, forest fires also mean that deliveries are suspended.

Mandatory evacuations due to forest fires County of Siskiyou And County of Nevada "resulted in delivery impacts for some evacuated customers served by" the offices of the Seiad Valley, Scott Bar and Washington, the USPs declared in its two outings of August 16 and 17.

The customers of the Seiad Valley Post Office are directed to the Happy camp post office to recover their mail. Meanwhile, customers of the Scott Bar post office should go to the post office office of Fort Jones, and customers of the Washington Post Office should visit the Nevada City post office to do the same.

"This is a rapid development situation, and the USPS is proud to serve our local communities," said the agency in its local outings. "We are asking for patience because we hold our solemn tasks to provide the safest, fastest and most efficient method to provide email service to our residents."

Better life Tenched at the USPS to see if there is information on the moment when the facilities of the Scott bar, Seiad Valley and Washington will reopen, and we will update this story with their answer.

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Forest fires also assigned USPS services to Hawaii.

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Postal customers in California are not the only ones to deal with the service disturbances due to forest fires. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

On August 9, the postal service updated its service alert website to announce that it had "temporarily suspended operations" in two post offices in Hawaii: Lahaina and downtown Lahaina. Then on August 11, the agency published another alert to let the public know that these two facilities were still closed due to the forest fires in progress in Maui.

"In force, the messaging service for customers of the main post office in Lahaina and the Lahaina Downtown post office will be temporarily moved to the Wailuku post office, as detailed below," added the postal service in a separation Local press release . "USPS will do everything possible to resume operations in Lahaina after the West Maui roads are accessible."


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