SAN ANTONIO -- In observance of the Monday, Jan. 17, Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, Postmaster Steven Hernandez today announced all San Antonio Post Offices will be closed and there will be no mail collections or regular mail delivery to residences, businesses or Post Office boxes.  The Business Mail Entry Unit and all administrative offices will be closed.  Guaranteed Express Mail® will be the only mail delivered.

The Airport Mail Facility, 10250 John Saunders, San Antonio TX, will close at 8 p.m., on Sunday, Jan. 16, and re-open at 8 a.m., on Tuesday, Jan. 18.

On the holiday, Postal customers may still conduct most postal transactions at Automated Postal Centers (APCs) which offer access 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week, at the following locations:

Full Postal Service operations will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 18.  Postal customers are reminded the Post Office is always open at www.usps.com.

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