Postal Service Pushes Back Closure of Arlington Branches
Review process to decide the fate of two of three post offices in town will restart from scratch.
U.S. Postal Service officials are delaying the potential closure of two of the three Arlington branches after a piece of mail didn’t go out to town residents in a timely fashion. Michael Foley, discontinuance coordinator for Boston area post offices, on Monday said a piece of mail didn’t go out in time to notify town residents about the potential closure of the U.S. Postal Service’s East Arlington and Arlington Heights branches. The two Arlington locations are on a list of 3,700 branches nationwide considered for closure, including 43 locations in the Boston area. The list does not include the Postal Service's main branch in Arlington Center. Foley said the piece of mail also contained information about a public hearing, a comment sheet …
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Malcolm Hamilton
3:57 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
I wrote a letter to the "District Discontinuance Coordinator" explaining my view that the Arlington Heights office was a great "service" to the community--and always busy. I suggested that eliminating services was not a good way to keep the Postal "Service" viable. I concluded that there are lots of ways to reduce USPS losses, but curtailing access service to citizens seems contrary to the … more ›