Bay Area post offices on hit list for closures

My coworker, from South San Francisco, was saying just yesterday that not only was her local post office closed down, it was torn down!  She had put her mail on hold while on vacation, and when she wanted to go and collect the held mail, even the USPS couldn't tell her where it was!

From SFGate

Thirteen post offices in the Bay Area, including five in San Francisco, are in danger of being closed as the financially battered U.S. Postal Service reconsiders the status of thousands of its outlets nationwide.

The Postal Service said Tuesday that it was looking into closing or downgrading 3,653 branches across the country starting later this year, citing a drop in mail volume and increasing availability of postal products elsewhere.

The offices in San Francisco that could close are the Bayview-Hunters Point station, the McLaren station, the Visitacion Valley station, the Civic Center post office box unit and the station in the Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue.

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