The long awaited U.S Post Office will finally open Wednesday June 25th at 9am at Sundrez in the Jacksonville Landing. Thie facility will service the downtown business and residential populations. It will have all services available that an actual Post Office would have with the exception of Postal Money Orders(although Western Union Money Orders are currently sold) and PO Boxes. All mailing, packing and shipping services will be available. Stop by and check it out.
In my opinion they never should have closed the old one; maybe scaled it down a bit and relocated or even built a smaller one somewhere downtown, but every city has a central post office; but a City of 800,000 (around 150,000 urban without consolidation) without a central downtown post office? Almost unheard of.
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Totally agree!
Now I just need something to mail.
Don't expect the US Postal Service to open any new facilities manned by its employees that aren't obvious money makers. It will close money losers where politically possible. First class mail (bills, cards, corespondence) is shrinking 5-7% each year. Fuel costs are rising. Its future is in packages and advertising mail. Saturday delivery (except packages) will go away soon. Its business model is really changing. This office in the Landing is contracted out.
From a business perspective, the USPS is doing a heck of a job pricing themselves out of business. We deal with them at work, and I can tell you that the operation is extremely inefficient. We deal with all four of the major shipping carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL), and as an example, they are the only ones that still require a paper manifest that details every shipment.