Post Office Closings: Is Yours on the List?

Why doesn’t the US Post Office curtail delivery on Saturdays also. Five days a week is enough, I think. Even, worst, worst case, deliver on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays only!

why can’t they close on sat sun & mon deliver 4 day’s a week and stop paying the carriers 12 to 20 bucks an hour, making that kind of money plus the bennys is more than ample pay i think

They are sometimes as slow as the old Pony Express anyway !! Half the time they can’t seem to get the mail into the correct box. Let them fail. I can pay bills on-line instead.

hey charlie you think we make big bucks?I would like to see you do what we do every day freezing cold hot heat down poors of rain,DOG BITES<I could go on forever!

Closing Saturdays would be a big help.

post office closings, complete list, completely useless. is this the best job you can do. if so what are the newspapers worried about. you get a grade “d” for your website. ralph

I think that we need to cut back on some things since taxes are going out of sight and people can’t afford it anymore! What about closing the libraries, too! Our kids do homework on computers and we can buy a book if we care to! Also, cut back on police chiefs…do we really need one in every town? Also, the schools need this and that…we’re all tired of it! Ours needs air conditioners…I don’t have one!

do all of you must to make the post office operations efficient, but please remember that the government ,by law must provide SERVICES to all american citizens—these services are in the u.s.code [i think]–i believe that many more p.o.’s should be reviewed on a “cost benifit analysis” study. good lock

Please allow me to change the topic. In stead of cash for clunkers, why not just cut the interest rate for every home owner, without us having to requalify for a loan all over again, and paying those high closing costs. If the government would do that we would buy the cars with no futher help needed. we might even buy a roll or two of those expensive stamps.

I didn’t think much of Bob’s comment!! Let him pay that high price for on-line bill paying. What happens when his internet shuts down or his computer goes bad? A new computer and the price of $40.00 plus per month for internet service just does not compare to a .44 cent stamp. Pay your bills by mail. It’s a-lot cheaper in the long run. Even if you sent 100 pcs. per year, that’s only $44.00. ONE MONTH of internet service, maybe!! GET REAL PEOPLE. We can’t loose our Post Offices

the USPS should start DROPPING the price of first class mail. Instead they lose market share and INCREASE the prices?
Also, bring back and promote, more methods of delivery at cheaper costs (parcel post, 2nd class, book rate, etc).
Thirdly, they should bring back ACTUAL SERVICE. By this I mean door delivery, mailbox delivery instead of this insidious group delivery system on most homes build in recent years. No wonder people use another method. Who wants to drive to some group mailbox that might’ve been rifled through or you can’t find the key? If the postman DELIVERED the mail to our doors we 1) would pay for it and 2) be feeling secure and use it more often.
Most people who use the USPS are older, on fixed incomes, live in rural areas, etc. So make it CHEAPER and you could gain back more USERS if you provided SERVICE door-delivery like we used to have.

The Post Office is not the ONLY company that closes for Holidays. Oh no, what happens when the BANKS want to close on Saturdays or go to four days a week?!

Some typical rantings of people who cannot look at a situation without being rational. Mail volumes are down due to technology and management was sleeping at the switch for not planning to streamline the delivery system. Plus they have been hampered by the organized labor costs (Billions for health costs).
The management should be held responsible for not carrying out their fiduciary responsibility.

People who are making these insane comments, and who obviously don’t work at the PO, are just jealous. But let me tell you…the majority of those people working at the PO more than EARN their pay, their benefits and their holidays. There’s a reason WHY a good portion of people who start off at the PO don’t end up making a life-long career of it, and that’s because the job is HARD. When my husband started working for the PO about 15 years ago, he had to be at work at two o’clock in the morning and his pay was minimum wage. Eight people started that same job at the same time as my husband, but how many people do you think ended up sticking it out? Just one. And now my husband is a city carrier who makes a decent living. But he makes that decent living because he MORE than paid his dues. Some of you need to quit acting like the world owes you something…if you don’t like your present job and your status, get off your butt and change it. But don’t drag those of us, who have worked our tails off our entire lives, down to your level just because you’re unhappy with your life.

Thanks Lisa for understanding what letter carriers actually do. People think were making $100,000 I don’t make close to that. In fact I work a secon job all winter long at minimum wage just to pay my bills

YOU PEOPLE JUST HAVE KNOW IDEA WHAT US FELLOW CARRIERS GO THROUGH EVERYDAY,AND FURTHER MORE MY CUSTOMERS DONOT GET WRONG MAIL IN THERE BOXES EVERYDAY,THE GET THEIR MAIL THR SAME TIME EVERY DAY LIKE CLOCK WORK!MY CUSTOMERS LOVE ME!THANK YOU VERY MUCH

I think that the postal service should close down on sabbath (saturday) which the 7th day. Exdous chapter 20:8-11 say that this is a rest day. so why not let everyone rest on this special day. this would save some money, think about how much gas would be saved.

God, i just hope my post office doesnt close.

thats even funnier some one some where didn’t like my comment and erased it. Good thing that I have the right to free speech what a joke

I for one am a postal worker. I have worked every type of holiday there is including Christmas. Not all postal workers get paid holidays. Some of us work six days a week. Our hours vary we work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The carrier and your local post office are not the only workers. On the other hand the postal service is telling the employees to use mail service, but the only way to apply for a job with the post office now is on the internet, the only way to apply for a promotion is on the internet. We are mandated to submit duplicate reports daiy creating extra work. We need to practice what we preach.

The post office should close on Saturdays, it would save in manpower, gas, electric, sick leave (because tha is the day of highest call-ins) you wouldn’t need as many subs to replace you call-ins or vacation leave. But this of course is too logical.

There is much waste in the postal system. Do away with duplicate services. Concentrate on shipping not other services.

People always want to blame the costs associated with labor but how often they forget the extremely high costs for fuel to run several hundred thousand vehicles a day to every location around the country. Just raise the price of gas, what? 10 cents per day (as happened nationwide for several months) and see how fast that 44 cent stamp will go!!! Think about! We raise cain about the price of a stamp to go over the entire nation but just continue to fill up at the pump and mumble be gladly do it. Always consquences to the higher price of gas but how often we want to blame the costs on labor. Think about that!

Seems like a short-sighted answer to a long term problem. There is more at stake here than facilities being closed. What about the actual service quality; redundancy amongst employees; what are the terms for employees that are layed off? Do they get huge severance packages? Benefits like the auto workers? WE pay for that. Given the track record I wonder if every option was exhausted or this was just the easy way out. Due diligence; cost containment?

I think the Postal Servive should look real hard supervisors and 204Bs plus the upper pepole. Money is being spent on dumb stuff. In the office I work at we have a sup, a 204B a acting sup.”witch is just a clerk” and a Postmaster. They walk all over each other trying to look like they are doing something. I talked to the sup. once and he told me that they really didn’t need the 204b.that he need clerks

Deliver only 5 days a week. Monday thru Friday. Not necessary for 6 day delivery.

I would not have delivery on Saturday and place more cluster boxes. If a resident wants home delivery, have a surcharge

How about this – cut out mail deliveries to homes. Make people come out to get their mail themselves, maybe like PO boxes (exceptions made for those who are homebound, without reasonable transport, etc.) May have to expand building size, but there is plenty of open office space these days. Make businesses pay for delivery service, unless they pick up as well. The branches could be staffed for longer hours, and on weekends, without anywhere near the labor, fuel and equipment costs.

I can’t bring up the list either! Our postage rates are low, low, low compared to other countries and our service is great! Jeez, I mail a package out of my little town in the middle of no-where Washington and it gets to my nephews in no-where upstate New York in no more than 2 days. Sometimes it’s the next day. I can’t figure out how they do it. I can’t travel that fast myself as a passenger without lots of planning. And they do it everytime. My hats off to all postal employees. Linda

We live in a small city in Arizona,we don’t even have mail delivery door by door, we have to pick up our mail from the po boxes.
the service is too bad, starting with the parking lot where is a chaos to get a spot in the parking lot or get out of there, and if someone send us a parcel in priority mail last up to 6 days to arrive and still USPS is able to charge for a service they never done.
So, if they decide to open the office 3 day a week there’s no big difference.

Don’t the post office pay workers for taking every other friday off ? They’ve taken the on the corner mail boxes away and I still see mail trucks criss crossing through the city some even parked in the shade at the park in the middle of the day .

I am with you crystal douglas. .44 is a lot cheaper than the idenity theft you might get from allowing your personal information into cyber space….what happens during a power outage, hurricane, blackout or blizzard…power is down, internet is not working but us postal carriers are out delivering your letters/bills/junk mail/magazines in rain, snow, sleet and thru the thick of the heat and cold. no ac or heat… I agree with eliminating more of those shirt and ties in the air-conditioned offices making 6 figures…start cutting from the postmaster general in washington and work down. Also, wendy, if customers would let us know who lives at the residence – you will not get other peoples mail – communication is key

thats right people ,get real. we can not shut down post offices. we need them. paying on-line is not safe. lots of hacker out there. every click you made on your keyboard your being trace. they watcing you. look at the usps benifits, safe, realiable service. your indentity is safe.

CStacker: Please tell me where you got your misleading information about PO workers getting every other Friday off? It would be nice, but my husband, who is a city carrier, gets no such thing. Neither do any of the other carriers or clerks in his PO. Also, if the PO trucks are parked in the shade in the middle of the day, chances are that they are taking their lunch breaks…or I don’t know, do some of you PO scrooges want to take that away from them, too?

No more standing in line for hours, waiting for the next teller to go on break, every other month a new stamp hike etc etc etc. Let them all fail and we can pay our bills on the internet for about $14.99/month and free bill paying with your bank. Lot faster and guaranteed to get there NOW, not days from now (or never). If the postal workers want to complain about the job (delivering in the rain sleet snow etc) QUIT!!! See if you can find a better job. How often can any of you even remember the last time you went to the post office and it didn’t take a almost 30 minutes? I can’t. And I live in a small town, so I can’t even think about how bad the postal line is in the ‘big city”.

Jackie, if you read the article you’ll see the following:
Is your post office branch at risk of closing? You can see the full list HERE.
Click on the blue word “HERE”, and you’ll get a list of the various parts of the country. Look for your area, and you’ll find the closures.
Postal workers need their jobs. We need to find a solution that allows them to keep working. We don’t need more unemployment. I think cutting back on the number of delivery days is a good idea.

Another UNION S.O.B. story. Over paid, benefits out the wazoo, lazy, inefficient, nasty attitude. But they get paid REAL well for sorting freaking mail. I use the internet for everything possible and ONLY use Priority for something under 3 pounds if it’s non-breakable. They are the ONLY carrier that doesn’t provide insurance–what does that tell you? They don’t even trust their own workers. Tuesdays is only for bulk mail advertising crap. Save some trees and take a day or 4 off. They are NOT necessary and costing us more than they are worth – UNIONS SUCK.

Until you have walked a mile in our shoes, you can’t complain. We have some good workers and bad just like any other company. Majority of us come to work and do our jobs the best that we can. We love what we do, otherwise why would we take all of the rude customers that we encounter each and every day. We have to leave all of this behind us and try to put a smile on our faces for our families. Also, only half of the America polulation have computers in their homes. So, if Congress doesn’t help, we will survive. We are Survivers.

Without mail carriers what is your dog that you say won’t bite going to chase?

I actually have a friend that works at the post office in a small town in Iowa and since she only makes $9 an hour — and only gets to work part time which is all any of the postal workers in my town work then I think a lot of the commenters on here need to do a little researching about what they are talking about. Instead of Saturdays how about taking a day in the middle — maybe Wednesday or Thursday? Then there wouldn’t be such a heavy load from 2 days in a row of accumulation?? Just a thought. We need the post offices, because not all parts of the great US are internet accessible, and not all people are technically educated! So lets all try to think of one another and keep the post offices alive!

To expect postal management along with Postmaster General “Harry” Potter to implement any common sense measures such as curtailing Saturday delivery is like expecting the rest of our hopelessly broken federal government to do what’s right.
Believe me, these people who lead our country today and live in their separate universe inside that DC Beltway seem to revel in perverted pleasure as they deliberately create laws and procedures designed to inflict the maximum pain and discomfort on the ‘real’ Americans.

What I do not undertand is…more people shop online today than ever before (obvioulsy), but also every individual who sells on ebay generally uses the USPS…So while enveloped mailings have decreased, I would have to believe that package mailings have increased, which costs more than a stamp…this doesn’t seem acurate…maybe they should begin charging for their packing supplies…all Priority/Express boxes/bags/envelopes etc are all currently free of charge. I would think that this alone…would boost revenue immediately. Michelle

I USED TO WORK IN GENERAL MOTORS TARRYTOWN PLANT,THEY WOULD PAY YOU FOR A GOOD IDEA THAT WOULD SAVE THEM MONEY, WELL THAT IDEA WAS ROBOTICS.YOU WOULD GET SAY $2,500 GREAT HUH? NOT REALLY ,YOU WERE PUTTING YOURSELF OUT OF A JOB.THE BIG SUITS GOT MORE BONUS MONEY AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE LOST JOBS.EZ PASS IS GREAT NO WAITING IN LINES ETC. JUST PUT MORE PEOPLE OUT OF WORK.IN YOUR LOCAL STORES HEY SELF CHECKOUT NO LINES THATS GREAT! MORE JOBS NOT NEEDED.AND NOW WITH POST OFFICE ,PAY YOUR BILLS ON THE INTERNET ,GREAT MORE JOBS LOST.IT GOES ON AND ON JUST THINK WHATEVER YOU DO MIGHT BE REPLACED BY A COMPUTER OR A MACHINE OR A ROBOTIC DEVICE,OR AN ILLEGAL THAT GETS PAID CRAP ,WHEN OBAMA SAID HE WOULD CREATE JOBS WHAT KIND OF JOBS WAS HE THINKING OF JOBS WE HAD DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION?

Hmmmm. I can’t seem to find a list anywhere.

There’s an ineffective office by Rocky Mountain Airport in Westminster, CO that would not be missed by closing. Also, I say install more cluster boxes in neighborhoods and PLEASE eliminate Saturday delivery.

I live in a more rural part of SC, and HATE the slow service line at our small Post Office. Lines are always long, no matter the time of day, and the overpaid service-personnel are not at all interested in timely customer service. I have gotten use to going to the UPS store when I want to send something US Postal, but often save money sending it via UPS anyway. Just saying, you can close the Easley SC branch anytime you want. Those postal employees need to stand in an unemployment line for a few months.

I think it is just a sign of the times. Everyone else is having to tighten their belts, and lay off workers…the post office is no different. I do with the branch near me was closing…I really can’t stand the post master there…she is a total snob and treats people like crap. Bottom line is that the post office is a privately owned company, yet they are treated like government employees. What other company gets that kind of special treatment? I like my mail man, but hes doing a job that any idiot could do…he drives the same route everyday, delivers mail to the same addresses every day and like 70 percent of the mail carriers I have known, hates his job. Maybe to save money they could give the mail to Jehovah’s Whiteness’s on Saturdays…they go to every friggin door anyways and they could slip in those magazines they are always hawking. The “snail mail” is a needed service, but there are TOO many people working in the company…time to cut the fat and make it a leaner more efficient company like all the rest of us.

My father and husband both work for the post office along with thousands of other Americans. The wages are good but not to extremes. They work very hard and long hours. My husband often works 50-60 hours a week. He comes home sore and tired. Don’t get me wrong we are happy to be working, but the solution is not to cut Saturday delivery which would ELIMINATE about 20% of all post office jobs.

Blah, Blah, Blah, That’s what (most) this sounds like. This is the last personal human to human service we have left! Everyone just follow the herd. If we let the Post Office fail, we give up the last of our privacy.

We need Post offices. Why not make THEM go into bankruptcy like they made the auto companies. They can come out with a LOT less managers they seem to have a lot of, and some of the dead beat works ( NOT all of them). Get rid of the dead weight and maybe the UNION.

Great more people unemployed!!!
Why can’t they just fire the creeps at the top that are wasting the earnings that could pay those wages?
Haven’t we learned anything? It’s always the few bad apples that spoil the bunch. They need to make cuts but not at the lower level they are suggesting…But I guess they wouldn’t really suggest eliminating their own high paid positions… like they should. lol I wish.

I’m a retired postal worker, in the maintenance department you do not necessarly get holidays off however truth is you get holiday pay which is compensation for not being with your family.

The Post Office needs to stop saturday and then work some of the holidays..not Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years or the 4 of July..but they could work presidents day, Martin Luther King Day,Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus day, Let the Veterans have off veterans day..Also how many offices are there in rural area’s that no rural carriers come out of all of those should be closed because some where close there has to be a rural carrier delivering who could pick up those residential deliveries….Drive thru KY or TN or IN and you will see the small trailors on wheels that are postoffices with no carriers just window service….Why can’t someone with some common sense be in charge?

I THINK ITS AWFUL THAT THEY WILL CLOSE POST OFFICES THEY ARE BAILING OUT THE AUTO INDUSTRY AND GIVING OUT STIMULUS MONEY FOR SOME HICK AIRPORT IN ALASKA BUT OUR POST OFFICE WORKERS FACE LOSING THIER JOBS i guess it really does pay to sell icecubes in alaska

consumers could learn alot about how the mail is processed and what their mail goes through before it gets to them, The Post Office gives tours of the mail facility, It’s very facinating how the mail is processed and the speed of these machines that can read and distribute billions of letters an hour,just think about how many homes we deliver to every day, and 98% of the time you get your mail on time,The post office does an excellent job, and consumers should educate themselves, they would appreciate us more if they saw the whole picture!!!!

Especially you Mr. Lean Gov.

Wendy you are absolutely oblivious, don’t you think that an employee of any job deserves vacation time or sick time. Have you not asked these requirements of a job that you have applied for. As far as the subs, i too was a sub. Yes, you do work more, it is because you are waiting for your own route to come available. Sounds like you don’t like to work!

What happens to the “eliminated” postal workers? They need work…maybe they could do your job better than you! Meanwhile less money will go into your community because of their missing paychecks. Your product or services will become a luxury and be cut back by that amount. Fewer sales means fewer people are needed. Next cutback could be you.

Another way to save money would be handle all mail everyday and deliver it every other day.

the us post office is vital to the us economy. people have to understand the ramifications of closing the post office.there’s a lot of people who will lose their job, if the gov’t and people will not help the agency.
downward spiral of the economy. there are business inter related to the agency. :(
go and mail your bills old fashion way.
we’ll all be affected by this.

I think the price of a stamp is a remarkably good deal. I mean for half the price of a Hershey bar I can send a letter from Bangor, ME to Guam! I don’t know why people complain so much about the Post Office and the price of a stamp. Mail delivery is one of the most basic and fundamental government services and when you think about the BILLIONS of parcels and letters delivered every year and how few get lost it is a remarkable achievement. I mean I only have one set of keys and I misplace them all the time!
I agree that a five-day delivery week would go a long way and wouldn’t be too much of a disruption to mail service. However, I think this non-sense of getting rid of the USPS is coming from some pretty ignorant folks. Can you imagine how many families would be ruined by such a move if every letter carrier and clerk lost their jobs. It would be devastating. Secondly, e-mail and the internet will never be able to fully replace the mail service. I think the internet and online bill pay is great and reduces environmental impacts. However, people will always want mail because it is tangible thing we can touch (in other words e-birthday cards suck!).
Next, on how much USPS carriers get paid. I think they deserve every penny of it. I couldn’t go it. First, they have to work and delivery in poor weather and crappy and even dangerous neighborhoods. Secondly, they have to put up with so much government bureaucracy and bulls#*@ they would have to pay them well or else they’d all just find something else to do.
Finally, why should we expect the USPS to break even or make a profit. I can’t think of many gov’t branches that do(other than IRS/Treasury).

I have a great mail man. I would hate to lose him. He is worth every penny they pay him!

For all you people who think that postal workers don’t have a hard job. Go work for one week and I bet you would not last the week

Does anyone know if the decisions about which post offices will be closing has been made? If not, does anyone know who to talk to about this issue?

Charlie – you’re really complaining about postal carriers being paid $12 an hour? $12 an hour is not an absurd rate. Also, I would like to see you walk all day long, house to house, no matter what the weather for just $12 an hour – you’d be asking for a raise real quick!

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