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Dec. 15, 2021

Select Post Offices in Michigan are open on Sunday Dec. 19

GRAND RAPIDS, MI —To help our customers get those cards, letters and packages to their destination in time for the holidays, we will be open on Sunday Dec. 19 at the following Post Office locations.

 

Office Name Address Sunday Hours
12/19
Saginaw Boardwalk 3193 Boardwalk Dr
48603		 10am-2pm
East Lansing 1140 Abbott Rd
48823		 10am-2pm
Lansing Main 4800 Collins Rd
48924		 10am-2pm
Kalamazoo Westwood 167 N Drake Rd
49009		 10am-3pm
Battle Creek 90 McCamly St
49016		 10am-2pm
Portage 1151 W Milham Ave
49081		 10am-2pm
Niles 741 Broadway St
49120		 10am-2pm
Grand Haven 324 Washington Ave
49417		 10am-2pm
Zeeland 155 E Main Ave
49464		 8am – 11am
Grand Rapids Northeast 1765 3 Mile Rd NE
49505		 8:30am-2pm
Wyoming
Rogers Plaza		 1026 28th St SW
49509		 9am-5pm
Grand Rapids
Kentwood		 1680 44 ST SE
49548		 10am-2pm
Traverse City Barlow 1756 Barlow
49686		 10am-2pm
Sault St Marie 161 Ridge St
49783		 10am – 12 noon

 

The Postal Service recommends the following mailing and shipping deadlines for expected delivery by Dec. 25.

  • Dec. 17 — First-Class Mail service (including greeting cards)
  • Dec. 17 — First-Class packages (up to 15.99 ounces)
  • Dec. 18 — Priority Mail service
  • Dec. 23 — Priority Mail Express service

For the 2021 peak season — the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day — the Postal Service will deliver more mail and packages to homes than any other shipper. It’s anticipated that between 850 million and 950 million packages will be delivered for the holidays. The total number of letters, cards and packages processed and delivered is estimated to be more than 12 billion.

The Postal Service plans all year for the peak holiday season. This year’s preparations include leasing 7.5 million square feet of additional space across more than 40 annexes to handle the increase in the number of packages being mailed. The Postal Service is also currently hiring for more than 40,000 seasonal positions to help process and deliver the mail.

Since April, the Postal Service has installed 92 of 112 new package sorting machines, reflecting the “Delivering for America” plan’s $40 billion of planned investment over 10 years. Additionally, more than 50 machines that can sort large packages are expected to be up and running prior to December. The new machinery gives the Postal Service the capacity to process an additional 4.5 million packages each day.

Consumers don’t have to leave home to ship their packages. In these socially distant times, they can simply visit usps.com or use the Click-N-Ship feature for help shipping that holiday gift, ordering free Priority Mail boxes, printing shipping labels, purchasing postage and even requesting free next-day Package Pickup. And usps.com is always open.

The Postal Service generally 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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