HARTFORD — Local post offices will be closed Monday, January 18, 2010 to observe Martin Luther King Day. Except for Express mail premium service, there will be no delivery of mail on Monday.
"Regular delivery of mail, as well as full postal retail operations, resume on Tuesday," said Tatiana Roy, the Manager of Marketing for the Connecticut Valley District of the Postal Service, who added that "if your office is not open on Monday and you use a postage meter, please take an extra moment on Tuesday to verify your meter date."
Business mail entry units, or BMEUs, that serve commercial mailers will be open in Springfield (MA) and Hartford (CT) from 10 am until 7 pm. The BMEU in the Southern Connecticut Processing Center in Wallingford will be open from 10 am until 6 pm while the Stamford (CT) BMEU will be closed.
For customers in need of package services or stamps, Roy points to the 23 Automated Postal Centers, known as APCs, available in postal lobbies across Connecticut Valley and Western Massachusetts. Each is located in the lobby of a postal facility that is open 24 hours daily including holidays.
Automated lobby services complement online services, through www.usps.com, by delivering mailing and shipping services to customers when the Post Office is closed.
“An APC provides easy access to about 80 percent of all postal products and services the same way ATMs provide access to banking services,” explained Roy. “We know folks are busy. The APC fits your postal business into your day, including postal holidays.”
The 24-hour self-service stations also offer shipping services and zip code look-ups, with recent upgrades that permit post office box payments. Automated Postal Centers (APCs) offer a Spanish-language option for all transactions.
Connecticut APCs are located in Bridgeport, Danbury, Enfield, Fairfield, Glastonbury, Greenwich (Greenwich Avenue Station, Greenwich Postal Store), Hamden, Hartford, Manchester, Milford, New Canaan, New Haven, Newington, Southbury, Stamford, Stratford, West Hartford and Wilton.
Western Massachusetts APCs are located in Amherst, East Longmeadow, Northampton and Pittsfield.
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A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars. With 36,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, the Postal Service relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. Named the Most Trusted Government Agency five consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $68 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 26th in the 2008 Fortune 500.
