INDIANAPOLIS, IN — United States Postal Service operations will be limited Monday, January 18, 2010, in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday.

Postal operations on the holiday will be as follows:

• There will be no regular home delivery; however, postal employees will be delivering Express Mail items.
• There will be no retail window service at any United States Postal Service station or branch.
• Customers using a debit or credit card can utilize the Automated Postal Centers located throughout the Greater Indiana District, including Bloomington (Main and Woodbridge), Brownsburg, Carmel, Chesterton, Columbus, Crown Point, Fishers, Fort Wayne (Main and Northwood), Greenwood, Indianapolis (Bacon, Castleton, Eagle Creek, Main Office, New Augusta, Nora, Park Fletcher and Southport), Kokomo, Lafayette, Merrillville, Mishawaka, Noblesville, Plainfield, Portage, Richmond, Schererville, South Bend (Main and Edison Park), Terre Haute, Valparaiso, Warsaw, West Lafayette, Westfield and Zionsville. Automated Postal Centers are available 24 hours daily, every day of the week, including holidays and can conduct 80% of transactions available at postal retail counters such as mailing packages and purchasing postage.
• Many companies will conduct business as usual on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Therefore, the Postal Service is urging customers to deposit their outgoing mail Monday evening or early Tuesday morning in blue collection mailboxes found at post offices and business industrial parks. This will allow for earlier processing of Monday’s mail volumes.
• Mail delivery will resume on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

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