USPS suspends services in these places, from tomorrow

The agency already plans to close two post offices this month.


American postal service (USPS) often seems As if it works All day every day. While post offices across the country can last variable hours, the agency only closes all of its facilities for federal holidays. But now, the postal service plans to close some of its post offices in certain areas for reasons not linked to the holidays. Read the rest to find out where the USPS will soon suspect the services.

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The USPS suspends services in a Michigan post office.

Austin, USA - September 7, 2009: Bright daylight exterior view of a modern United States Post Office in downtown Austin, Texas.
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The postal service alerts customers to operational disruptions via local press releases and its service alert website. In a premises Press release Published on September 8, the agency updated those of Michigan about an upcoming closure. According to the press release, the USPS temporarily closes an installation in Benton Harbor, Michigan, tomorrow.

From September 13, the Orchards Mall post office at the 1800 Pipepestone Road in Benton Harbor will be "temporarily suspended," said the agency.

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The agency said there were security problems in this establishment.

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The USPs did not enter into the details in its press release on the reasons for which the post office of the Orchards shopping center is temporarily closed. The agency simply declared that the suspension took place "due to security conditions". When Better life contacted the USPS to find out more about the closure, spokesperson Elizabeth Najduch said there is currently no other information available.

But this is not the first time that the postal service has to close the installation of the Orchards shopping center. In January of this year, the post office had to be closed After a water pipe that broke out in the shopping center. As The Herald-Palladium Reported at the time, the break was found Flood of several parts of the building.

The Orchards Malls post office finally reopened after the incident, but other reports indicate that the area has been declining for some time. The Orchards shopping center has only Two tenants left "The post office and another open company, WSJM reported in May. Its car parks are also "empty and in ruins", and the building is now surrounded by thousands of nesting gulls, according to the media.

Another post office office also soon in a different condition.

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It is not only Michigan postal customers who will be affected by future closings. Another installation of Maryland is also closing its doors this week. Fort Howard's post office office Maryland is close September 15, CBS News Baltimore recently reported.

The USPS previously confirmed this closure in a premises of August 18 Press release . The post office soon closed is located in Baltimore County at 9200 Howard Avenue, according to the agency’s press release.

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The installation of Maryland is faced with rental problems.

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In its original local press release, the USPS said it closed the Ford Howard post office on September 15 "due to the end of its current lease". Kathleen Labuda CBS News Baltimore said that postal service had started to rent his family's building in Fort Howard for the establishment in 1978. However, according to Labuda, the agency decided to let the agreement expire with the end of this lease. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It is not renewed because the real estate office of post offices refuses to negotiate," she told the media. "I am disappointed because it affects this whole community of 189 houses and these people do not deserve this."

USPS spokesperson Mark Wahl said Better life That the agency was informed that its lease at the post office of Fort Howard expires on September 30 and said that decisions are under work behind the scenes. "We are currently exploring options to continue the mail service for our precious customers and have no additional information at the moment," said Wahl. "The postal service will inform customers of our plans as soon as it is available."

Customers of the two states are directed to other post offices.

The photo was taken 10/28/2022 in a postoffice, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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While the USPS works "to ensure the safety of postal customers and employees", the agency directs the people affected by the closure of Michigan to come to another installation of the city. The postal service said that customers who normally obtain their P.O. The mail of the box at the Orchards Malls post office can start recovering it during regular sales hours at the Benton Harbor post office. According to the agency, the two installations are located at 3.8 miles.

"The postal service apologizes for any drawback that the closure can cause to our customers," said the USPS in its communication.

Meanwhile, Maryland customers will soon have to go to the Dundalk post office. The agency said: "Retail operations and the P.O. box service at the Fort Howard post office will be transferred to the Dundalk Post Office" from September 18. The two installations are more than eight miles away, according to CBS News Baltimore.


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