Many local post offices on closing study list
Twenty-one local, mostly rural post office branches that do not provide home delivery service are on the list of 3,650 facilities across the country being studied for possible closing.
“We can’t sustain a 32,000 post office network anymore,” said Tad Kelley, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) western Pennsylvania district office. “It just doesn’t make fiscal sense.”
Years of losing mail volume to the Internet coupled with additional losses attributed to the recession resulted in the USPS losing $8 billion last year, he said.
“We are in a very dire financial situation. We’ve had a 20-percent drop in mail volume since 2007,” Kelley.
The list of local branches on the closing study list includes the downtown Uniontown office in the Federal Building on Peter Street. The main branch on Iowa Street is not on the list.
In Fayette County, the branches on the list are in Cardale, Chestnut Ridge, Dickerson Run , East Millsboro, Gibbon Glade, Hibbs, Isabella, Lake Lynn, Martin, New Geneva, Ronco, West Leisenring and Wickhaven.
The Greene County branches being studied are in Brave, Garards Fort, Nineveh, Rogersville and Sycamore.
The only Washington County branch in the area that is on the list is in Denbo.
The soonest the study would be completed is December and no decisions will be made until then.
Please read the full story about the possible closings in tomorrow’s edition of HeraldStandard.com.