Post office cuts: Is your post office on the list?
The U.S. Postal Service is eyeing some 3,700 post offices for possible closure as a way to cut its financial losses as mail volume declines.
And the locations under consideration aren鈥檛 just dinky offices in one-stoplight towns. They include post offices in virtually every major city in the United States: from the post office in New York鈥檚 Port Authority to the one in the Hollywood Pavilion in Los Angeles 鈥� from Commerce station in downtown Minneapolis to its location in the Civic Center in Houston.
To find out which locations might be closed near you, for a complete listing by state.
Some states could be hit harder than others. Big states like California, New York, and Ohio have a little over 100 locations on the Postal Service鈥檚 鈥渟tudy list鈥� for possible closure. But Pennsylvania 鈥� with 203 locations on the list 鈥� could be especially hard hit. Texas has the most locations under threat: 222.
But for many, the downsizing is overdue. The Postal Service has already pared its retail outlets from 38,000 to under 32,000 in the last decade. It lost $8 billion last year.
鈥淚鈥檓 all for having a successful business,鈥� says a postal worker in Minneapolis, who supports the cuts but declined to give his full name because he wasn鈥檛 authorized to speak to the press. The cuts should have been implemented a year or more ago, he adds, but 鈥渋t鈥檚 hard to get anything done. By the time something gets done, it鈥檚 way longer than it takes in the private sector.鈥�
