WICHITA FALLS, TX—Postmaster Linda Norwood today announced a special holiday schedule for Wichita Falls Post Office retail operations.

To assist Postal customers with their holiday mailing needs, this Saturday and next, Dec. 12 and 19, two Wichita Falls Post Offices, the Morningside Station, 3107 5th St., and the Bridge Creek Station, 4001 Southwest Pkwy., will extend retail window service hours until 2 p.m.

Due to the expected reduction in personnel during the holiday season, from Dec. 21 to Dec. 31, the Sheppard Air Force Base Post Office will open at the regular time and close each day at 2 p.m. Normal business hours will resume on Saturday, Jan. 2.

With customer demand expected to be very low on Christmas Eve, the Wichita Falls Main Post Office, 1000 Lamar, will close at noon on Dec. 24, and the Bridge Creek Station Post Office will close at 1 p.m. on Dec. 24. The Bridge Creek Station Post Office will offer "Dutch door" service for customer pick up of accountable mail and packages until 5 p.m.

For customers needing full Postal services on Christmas Eve, the Morningside Station Post Office will be open normal hours, until 5 p.m., on Dec. 24. There will be regular mail delivery service on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24.

On Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25, and on New Year's Day, Friday, Jan. 1, all Post Offices will be closed and there will be no regular mail delivery, except for Express Mail Service. Full Postal operations will resume on Saturday, Dec. 26 and Saturday, Jan. 2, the days after the holidays.

Holiday Reminder: The Postal Service offers customers a convenient way to get their holiday shipping taken care of right from their home computer. Almost anything you do at a Post Office can be done right from your own desktop via the Postal Service's website: usps.com This holiday season the U.S. Postal Service reminds customers to take the hustle and bustle out of holiday shipping by using the online Post Office to send Priority and Express Mail packages, purchase postage, print shipping labels and schedule package pickup. The Post Office is always open at usps.com.

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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. With 36,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, the Postal Service relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. Named the Most Trusted Government Agency five consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $68 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 26th in the 2008 Fortune 500.