BUFFALO/NIAGARA AREA, NY — All Post Offices will be open Christmas Eve, Tuesday, Dec. 24, but all will close at noon except the Buffalo Main Post Office as 1200 William Street, open until 5 p.m.
Regular mail delivery and blue collection boxes having final collection times before 12 p.m. (noon) will not be affected by these changes on Dec. 24. However, collection boxes with final collection times scheduled after 12 p.m. (noon) will be collected by noon.
Revised hours will be posted at each Post Office. Customers may call 1-800-ASK-USPS for information about specific Post Office hours.
Post Offices will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 25 and only Express Mail will be delivered.
Regular mail delivery and Post Office hours will resume Thursday, Dec. 26.
Customers can access many postal services and products at local retailers (stamps), at a Self-Service Kiosk or at usps.com.
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: 152 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 more than 31,000 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 42nd in the 2012 Fortune 500. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for seven years and the fourth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
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