Postal Jobs

Outbound Mail: USPS Targets Thousands of Branches for Closure

Post Office Looking at Consolidation of 3,243 of its 4,851 Largest Branches and Stations

 

The Postal Service sent a notice…that it was considering consolidation options in every major metro market in the country and would consider closing 3,243 of its 4,851 largest branches and centers.

 

…The consolidations the USPS are studying are for larger locations of a few thousand to tens of thousands of square feet - most of it leased.

 

…the USPS could be studying the consolidation of more than 14 million square feet.

 

…To put that in perspective, 14 million square feet would be the equivalent of about all of the vacant retail space in a market such as Boston or Cleveland or Denver or the Inland Empire or Tampa.

 

Mark Heschmeyer

CoStar Group, July 29, 2009