Category Archives: Post offices

This is a continuation of a post from December listing post office closing notices and appeals, filed after a moratorium was placed. A Final Determination for each had been made before mid-December, but he boilerplate text says the USPS “will proceed with the … Continue reading →

A followup to previous posts about post office hubs: Waterloo and Cedar Rapids will stay open. Carroll and Creston will not. Nothing about local post offices beyond the moratorium that was already in place.

The stays of execution are, in all likelihood, temporary. But it’s something. In Kilduff, for example, doomsday was going to be in November, until it was moved to January, and now May. Same for Fostoria and Rembrandt. Unfortunately, the USPS … Continue reading →

AP/Iowa City Press-Citizen report. This may only apply to a certain subset of the post offices on The List and the four processing centers (Carroll, Cedar Rapids, Creston, and Waterloo). It’s already too late for some; the ICPC reports that … Continue reading →

I posted a couple weeks ago about the Buckingham post office closing. I’m sure there are others in the state that have passed the study period and are going to be shut down, although I’ve read the USPS has said … Continue reading →

The Des Moines Register: Four mail processing centers in Iowa are among 252 in the nation that are being studied for closure, according to a letter from the United States Postal Service to union leaders. … Under study is moving … Continue reading →

I went on a trip to southern Iowa Tuesday in an attempt to clear my head from all of the conference talk and in search of something about as random and uncertain: Iowa post offices targeted for closure. One of … Continue reading →

February: Searsboro, population 148, finds out that its post office is among the first mentioned in what will become of a wave of potential closures. July 24: The New York Times runs a blog post with a Searsboro dateline related … Continue reading →