BALTIMORE, MD – All Post Offices in the Baltimore District (comprised of ZIP codes beginning with 210 – 219) will be closed Monday, October 8, 2012 in observance of the Columbus Day holiday.
Delivery is limited to Express Mail in the major metropolitan area.
Commercial customers are asked to check with their Bulk Mail Acceptance Unit for hours of operation. To obtain the phone number of a specific Post Office, customers may call 1-800-ASK-USPS or visit www.usps.com.
Customers who wish to purchase stamps and our many other products and services may use any of the Automated Postal Centers (APC) located at the 24-hour locations listed below. The APC does everything short of face-to-face transactions, including renewing PO Boxes, dispensing stamps, weighing packages and calculating postage for Express Mail, Priority Mail, and First-Class Mail. All APCs take debit and credit cards only!
| Arnold Post Office | Ellicott City Post Office | Owings Mills Post Office |
| Baltimore Main Post Office | Frederick College Estates | Pasadena Post Office |
| Bel Air Post Office | Frederick Post Office | Reisterstown Post Office |
| Cockeysville Post Office | Glen Burnie Post Office | Severna Park Post Office |
| Columbia Post Office | Loch Raven Branch | Westminster Post Office |
| Crofton Post Office | Lutherville/Timonium | Windsor Mill Post Office |
| Eastport Post Office | Nottingham Branch |
Listed below are Contract Postal Units (CPU) – along with their hours of operation – that will be open Columbus Day, Monday, October 8. A CPU is a supplier under contract with the Postal Service to provide postal services to the public at postal prices.
| Cape St. Claire | 1332 Cape St. Claire Rd. | Annapolis MD 21401 | 9:00am – 5:30pm |
| Sherwood Forest | 132 Sherwood Forest Rd. | Annapolis MD 21405 | 9:00am – 4:00pm |
| Freedom Drug | 7568 North Point Rd. | Baltimore MD 21219 | 9:00am – 6:00pm |
| Drug City Pharmacy | 2805 North Point Rd. | Baltimore MD 21222 | 8:30am – 4:30pm |
| Wockenfuss Candy | 6831 Harford Rd. | Baltimore MD 21234 | 8:00am – 6:00pm |
| Cradlerock Mart | 6810 Cradlerock Way | Columbia MD 21045 | 8:00am – 8:00pm |
| PharmaCare | 11306 Bedford Rd. N.E. | Cumberland MD 21502 | 9:00am – 8:00pm |
| PharmaCare West | 64 Greene St. | Cumberland MD 21502 | 9:00am – 6:00pm |
| Feldman’s @ Chartwell | 8186 Lark Brown Rd. | Elkridge MD 21075 | 9:00am – 7:00pm |
| A-1 Service/Frederick | 467 W. Patrick St. | Frederick MD 21701 | 9:00am – 8:00pm |
| PharmaCare/Frostburg | 10601 New Georges Creek Rd. | Frostburg MD 21532 | 9:00am – 6:00pm |
| Hunt Valley Contract | 11350 McCormick Rd. | Hunt Valley MD 21031 | 8:00am – 4:00pm |
| Wockenfuss Candies | 12641 Ocean Gateway | Ocean City MD 21842 | 9:00am – 8:00pm |
| Sykesville Main St. | 731 Oklahoma Ave. | Sykesville MD 21784 | 9:00am – 5:00pm |
In addition, many services available at the Post Office are available online at usps.com. You can buy stamps, use Click-N-Ship to print your own mailing labels, pay for postage and confirm delivery. You can even request a package pick up at your home or office at no extra charge.
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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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, 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 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.
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