Real Post Office AND Village Post Office in same store?

It appears that there is both an independent post office AND village post office located within the general store. The VPO is opened when the independent post office hours are cut. Photo taken by Jimmy Emerson on May 25, 2014 via Sandy Hook VA 23153 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

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Customers take reduced hours at rural post offices in stride

Debbie Winchester has had a box at the Bryantsville Post Office for about 15 years. Nearly every morning about 11:30 on her way home from work at Mclain’s in Nicholasville, Winchester stops by the post office to check her box and talk with Post Mistress Sheila Price and whoever else happens to drop by the…

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Post office changes reach Canterbury, where tiny office a part of town fabric

The Canterbury Post Office is located in a white clapboard building, where it rents space from the town’s country store. A blue mailbox with the U.S. Postal Service logo and a small painted sign hanging from the awning are the only indications it is there. On a recent Thursday morning, only a few residents came…

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East Dixfield, ME Post Office may be closed or its weekly hours reduced

(July 17, 2014) EAST DIXFIELD — Depending on the results of a U.S. Postal Service survey, the service may close its East Dixfield Post Office or reduce the weekly office hours. Those results will be made public by Postal Service officials at the post office at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 22. Even if it remains…

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Postal Service likely to trim hours at Brush Valley, PA office

(July 17, 2014) BRUSH VALLEY — Customers of the Brush Valley Post Office and others voiced their concerns at a Wednesday meeting with the U.S. Postal Service. Jeff Klamut, U.S. Postal Service operations manager, held the 5 p.m. meeting at the Brush Valley Fire Hall to inform the community and answer questions about coming changes…

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Postal Service to cut Huletts Landing, NY office hours

In the fall of 2012 the United States Postal Service began a two-year nationwide process of notifying communities of potential changes to their post office hours and this process has now made its way to Huletts Landing. About 13,000 post offices nationwide have seen their hours reduced by this program, some dropping to six hours,…

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Woody Creek, Colorado post office hours on the chopping block

The days of a full-time postal center in Woody Creek appear to be numbered. The Woody Creek post office is among the 13,000 post offices across the U.S. going through a review process known as the Post Plan. The plan is designed to “right size” smaller post offices throughout the country. All post offices at…

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Postal Service Cuts Hours At Wildwood, GA Post Office

(July 16, 2014) Approximately two dozen people were in attendance at a meeting last week at the Wildwood Post Office to hear how the U.S. Postal Service’s “POST” plan would effect operating hours and services offered. The Postal Service’s POST plan is designed to make sure America’s communities continue to have access to products and…

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