CONIFER, CO — Due to road closures and emergency conditions as a result of the Northern Fork Fire, the Postal Service was unable to make deliveries to approximately 300 postal customers.
On Tuesday, no deliveries were made to the following streets or neighborhoods out of Conifer:
- Black Bear Lane
- Black Bear Trail
- Broken Arrow
- Cathedral Trail
- Conifer Meadows
- County Road 96
- Platte River Road
- Foxton Road
- Long Arrow
- Oehlmann Park
- Pleasant Park
- Resort Creek Road
- Ridge Road
- Running Deer
- Silver Ranch Meadow
- White Hawk Trail
This mail for these addresses only will be held at the Post Office. If customers need their mail, they are encouraged to come to the Conifer Main Post Office at 9546 S. Dallman Rd.
All other mail deliveries out of Conifer will be made unless local authorities disallow access or close roads.
Deliveries out of Pine and Buffalo Creek are not impacted.
Future delivery decisions will be made after consulting with local emergency managers.
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A list of processing facilities studied, FAQs, mail processing b-roll, and additional information can be found at usps.com/ourfuturenetwork.
A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With nearly 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service was ranked number one in overall service performance, out of the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world, Oxford Strategic Consulting. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
