HICKORY – The Hickory Main Post Office will be open for the next two Saturdays, December 10 and December 17, to enhance customer convenience for the holiday season. The retail lobby of the Post Office, located at 231 Government Avenue SW, will be open from 8 am to 12 noon on both days.

In addition to the Main PO, four additional postal locations are open Saturdays, all contract postal units: Bethlehem CPU, 75 Pink Dam Road, open 9 am – 12 noon; Eason’s Ace Hardware CPU, 3347 S. NC Highway 127, open 9 am – 12:30 pm; Longview CPU, 3509 First Ave. SW, open 8:30 am – 12 noon; and Springs Road CPU, 1269 E. 16th Street NE, open 9 am – 12 noon. Virtually all postal services and products are available at these locations all year round.

“The Postal Service is the ‘Official Shipper of the Holidays’ in this area and throughout the country,” said Jim Frizzell, Hickory Postmaster. “We want to make shopping and shipping as convenient as possible during this busy and important time of the year.”

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An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 149 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes, six days a week. It has 34,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services, not tax dollars, to pay for operating expenses. Named the Most Trusted Government Agency five consecutive years by the Ponemon Institute, the Postal Service has annual revenue of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.