12/31/2010 US Post Office Closings

If you web search "US Post Office closings" there are a number of news articles of small town or post office branches that are slated for closing tomorrow...permanently.

Does anyone know if there is a master list on the internet that summarizes all of the USPS branches that are definitely closing? While the majority of closings may be sub-stations in places where multiple post offices serve a given community, I noticed one or two where the zip code is actually being retired along with the post office.

Just curious if there's a master list, as the USPS web site has long lists of proposed closings but not all on that list are necessarily going to be closed; they are just proposals under evaluation as the post office looks to cut their losses.

It would be interesting to know how many are finally going to be closed at the end of 2010.

When closings started in Canada in the 1960's I made a hitchhike tour of rural post offices to collect cancellations and postmaster signatures before they closed. I got to 100 or so. It's my key philatelic collection.

As Moonbird stated, he gets cancels from these POs that are closing. This brings to mind a lot of covers in my collection that are addressed to a Dr. Brown or Mrs. Brown, who apparently in the late 1950 to mid 1960s went around to all the different post offices in certain counties to aquire cancellations from them.

A lot of postal history collectors in the Province of Ontario will have a cover or more addressed to this lady or her husband if they are seeking cancellations from these counties. I know I have about a couple of dozen addressed to them in my collection.

If you can get a master list of the PO closings in the States and some are close to you, you might want to get a cancel before it is too late. Just a thought anyway.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Hi wt1,

Go to this USPS link:

http://search.usps.com/search?site=...0&srchGo.y=5

On the right side are links to closings. Unfortunately you will have to search around as I did not find a single 'list' of closings in my quick search.

Jerry B