SAN FRANCISCO — In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, San Francisco Postal District Post Offices will be closed and there will be no mail delivery on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The U.S. Postal Service is inviting its customers to avoid the rush on Tuesday by dropping their letters into a blue collection box on Monday, Jan. 16, instead. This mail will be picked up during a special collection added to the schedule that day to help the Postal Service stay ahead of the Tuesday rush.

Customers are reminded that they have the opportunity to conduct their postal business at several Post Offices in San Francisco that are open for their convenience on Sundays.

The following Post Offices in San Francisco are open on Sundays:

All Post Offices will be open and mail delivery will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
The San Francisco Postal District stretches from Smith River on the Oregon border to Sunnyvale, CA, along the Northwest California coastline.

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