Sundance Post Office: New Postal Plan
Posted by Colorado Group Realty on Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 10:25am.Retail postal service will end January 15 at the Sundance post office, and negotiations are under way to keep P.O. boxes there after March 15.
The U.S. Postal Service's lease at Sundance at Fish Creek branch was scheduled to end this month, but Postal Service spokesman Al DeSaarro said that an extension will allow shipping and retail services to continue at the south-side branch early next year. Steamboat Springs Postmaster Tim O'Brien said after Jan. 15, four Sundance employees will move to the downtown branch, where retail services will be consolidated.
"Obviously, we will be busier here - we're set up to handle it," O'Brien said about the Third Street and Lincoln Avenue branch. "The existing staff that manned the windows (at Sundance) will man the windows here."
The lease for the P.O. box space at Sundance is under negotiation, but DeSarro said regardless of whether P.O. boxes remain at Sundance after March 15, the branch's nearly 2,600 boxes "will stay in the vicinity in Steamboat." DeSarro said that could mean housing the boxes in vacant commercial space or installing modular units at the potential site of the new main post office a private developer could build near U.S. Highway 40 and Pine Grove Road.
O'Brien said efforts to redesign traffic flow in the downtown branch's main parking lot, to mitigate increased use, have been well-received. Traffic can no longer exit the parking lot onto U.S. Highway 40. Traffic can exit only via a right turn onto Third Street, after traveling counterclockwise in the lot.
The Postal Service is facing significant financial shortfalls stemming at least in part from the economic recession. Mail volume declined by 10 billion parcels in federal fiscal year 2008, and the Postal Service lost $2.8 billion.
DeSarro said federal legislation in 2009 - and a work force reduction of about 40,000 employees - helped the Postal Service cut its losses from potentially $7 billion to about $3.8 billion in 2009. DeSarro said the Postal Service is projecting "at least a $3 billion deficit" in federal fiscal year 2010.
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