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Village Center Station Post Office

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

U.S. Postal Service Shelves Plans to Close The Hills Post Office

Postal official said surveys were never sent out because possibility of closing the Allen Road post office has been abandoned for now.

The U.S. Postal Service has dropped its study to consider closing the Village Station Post Office at 566 Allen Road in Basking Ridge, which will remain open for the forseeable future, a spokesman for the postal service said on Monday. "The study has been stopped and we have no current plans to re-open the study," George B. Flood, corporate communications manager for the USPS Northeast area, said in an email. The USPS announced in late July that it would pare down its 32,000 offices nationwide, and the Village Center Station, serving thousands of residents in The Hills, was among the sites being considered for possible closure. Later in August, Flood said the study on whether the post office at the top of Allen Road would be among almost 4,…

Monday, August 1, 2011

UPDATE: Months of Study, Mailed Survey, Prior to Possible Hills P.O. Closing

Residents and business cutomers in The Hills will receive mailed surveys asking for input, postal official says Monday.

UPDATED: A U.S. Postal Service study on whether the Village Center Station post office would be among almost 4,000 postal centers that may be closed will take several months to complete, with no definite time frame available at this point, a USPS spokesman said on Monday. When the study is begun, surveys will be mailed to every residential, business and post office box customer served by the Village Center Station, said George B. Flood, corporate communication manager for the USPS northeast area, based in Newark. Input will be collected from the public in other ways, he added. For now, it's business as usual at the Village Center Station post office at 566 Allen Road in The Hills development. In fact, some of those visiting the postal …

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2:29 pm on Monday, August 1, 2011

Since 2001, first class mail volume has drop from 104 billion to 78 billion, back to the level it was in 1987. It dropped from 92 billion to 78 billion in the last 2 years alone and doesn't appear to be leveling out! The US postal service lost $8.5 billion last year. They need to consolidate their business or there won't be a postal service. Volume link: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:…   more ›

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