Business owners, residents oppose closing downtown Uniontown post office
Business owners, residents and local officials on Wednesday urged U.S. Postal Service officials not to close the Downtown Uniontown Station post office on Peter Street.
About 30 people spoke out against the possible closing at a meeting held in the city’s main post office on Iowa Street to gather public comment, which the postal service will considered in its study of the possible closure.
The postal service, which lost $8 billion in 2011 and is projecting an $11 billion loss this year due to sharp declines in mail volume, has conducted similar meetings and mailed surveys to customers in Fayette County and across the country in its study into the feasibility of closing 3,650 post offices nationwide to cut costs. Twenty-one local, mostly rural offices are on the closing study list.
Bill Battles, an operations manager for the post service’s Pittsburgh district, said a moratorium on closing post offices is in place until May 15 and no offices would be closed before then.