Indianapolis, IN — Most Post Office retail counters in the Greater Indiana District of the U.S. Postal Service will close at noon on Friday, July 3, 2009 to enable retail employees to spend more time with their families. The last collection for mail deposited in blue collection boxes will also be at noon on that day. All collection points that have a regularly scheduled collection time prior to 12:00 PM (noon) on Friday July 3rd will be collected as scheduled. Regular mail delivery for July 3 will be unaffected by the change. P.O. Box mail access will only be available until 12:00 PM (noon) in those Post Offices where retail counters and access to Post Office Boxes are co-located and are affected by early retail closing.

The Greater Indiana District includes cities and towns with ZIP Codes 460-469, 472-475 and 478-479.

“As many businesses close early on July 3rd,” said District Manager Lynn Smith, “the number of customers visiting our lobbies greatly diminishes. We view this as an opportunity to afford retail employees more time with their families by closing retail operations in most of our locations early on July 3rd.”

The following Greater Indiana District Post Office retail counters will remain open until 5:00 p.m. on July 3rd and mail deposited in lobby collection bins and blue collection boxes located inside and outside these Post Offices will be picked up at 5:00 p.m. that day:

• Anderson (1505 Raible Avenue)
• Carmel (275 Medical Drive)
• Fishers (8500 E. 116th Street)
• Noblesville (1900 Pleasant Street)
• Greenwood (407 W. Smith Valley Road)
• Greenfield (207 N. State Street)
• Brownsburg (411 Northfield Drive)
• Eastgate (740 N. Shortridge Road – open until 6:00 p.m.)
• Southport (1701 E. Edgewood Drive – open until 7:00 p.m.)
• Nora (1300 E. 86th Street – open until 7:00 p.m.)
• Eagle Creek (6401 Gateway Drive)
• Crown Point (128 S. East Street)
• Michigan City (303 Washington Street)
• Hammond (5530 Sohl Avenue)
• Valparaiso (2700 Valparaiso Street)
• Gary (1499 Martin Luther King Drive)
• Fort Wayne ( 1501 S. Clinton)
• Columbus (450 Jackson Street)
• North Vernon (333 E. O & M Avenue)
• Muncie (501 W. Memorial Drive)
• Bloomington Main (206 E. 4th Street)
• Terre Haute (150 W. Margaret Drive)
• North Terre Haute (4900 N. Lafayette Street)
• Crawfordsville (300 E.Main)
• Lafayette (3450 State Road 26 East)
• West Lafayette (610 W. Navajo Street)
• Monticello (125 W. Broadway Street)

The following Greater Indiana District Post Offices will be open as noted below (box collection times included):

• Kokomo (2719 S. Webster Street) – open until 3:00 p.m., blue boxes collected at 3:00 p.m.
• Terre Haute Rose Station ( 70 Rose Avenue) – open until 4:30 p.m., blue boxes collected at 4:45 p.m.
• Rensselaer (225 S. Van Rensselaer Street) – open until 4:30 p.m., blue boxes collected at 4:30 p.m.

Commercial customers are asked to check with their Bulk Mail Acceptance Unit for July 3rd hours of operation. To obtain the phone number of a specific Post Office, customers may call 1-800-ASK-USPS.

Post Office retail counters will be closed on Saturday, July 4, 2009 (Independence Day – a federal holiday) and there will be no mail delivery.

Post Office retail counters will resume regularly scheduled hours of operation on Monday, July 6.

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