NEW YORK, NY — In the interest of safety and security, postal officials will seal or remove Postal Service collection boxes on Saturday, April 21, in New York City.

The familiar blue collection boxes will be inaccessible after the final scheduled collection of mail on the evening of Saturday, April 21.  

Impacted collection boxes will be reopened on the morning of Monday, April 23.

US Mail Collection Boxes impacted at the following locations:

• Both sides of Greenwich Street – between Battery Place and Morris Street
• Both sides of Trinity Place – between Morris Street and Edgar Street
• Both sides of Edgar Street – between Trinity Place and Greenwich Street
• Both sides of Greenwich Street – between Edgar Street and Vesey Street

For additional locations to deposit mail, customers are directed to usps.com and use Quick Tools to Find Locations. Use the dropdown for collection boxes or post offices to find alternate locations for secure mail deposits in the immediate area.

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