ST LOUIS — The United States Postal Service will observe President’s Day on Monday, February 21, a federal holiday. Post Offices will be closed including St. Louis Postal Stores at the Galleria, South County and Crestwood Malls and there will be no mail delivery.
Mail will be collected from blue street collection boxes throughout St. Louis (631 ZIP Codes) at regularly scheduled times. All other post offices will collect mail from street collection boxes beginning at 3 p.m. Postal officials advise anyone with stamped or metered mail ready for delivery, especially businesses, to drop this mail into a blue collection box instead of waiting to do so the following day.
Customers who wish to buy stamps or mail and ship packages on that day may use the Automated Postal Center (APC), a self-service kiosk similar to an automated teller machine at the following locations:
- Arnold 63010
- Ballwin 63011
- Belleville, Dutch Hollow Branch 62223
- Capitol View MO 65109
- Carbondale IL 62901
- Chesterfield 63017
- Clayton 63105
- Columbia, MO 65201
- Creve Coeur 63141
- Des Peres 63131
- Edwardsville, IL 62025
- Fairview Heights, IL 62208
- Fenton 63026
- Florissant 63031
- Gaffney 63114
- Kirkwood 63122
- Mackenzie Point 63119
- Maryland Heights 63043
- O Fallon, MO 63366
- O’Fallon, IL 62269
- Sappington 63128
- South County 63129
- St. Charles 63301
- St. Peters 63376
- Town & Country Branch 63017
- Wentzville, MO 63385
Post Offices will reopen and mail delivery will resume on Tuesday, February 22, 2011.
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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 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 $67 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 29th in the 2010 Fortune 500. 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 six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
