Plans to Close 3,000 Post Offices Never Existed, USPS Says

Recent widespread press reports and public outcry about supposed plans to close 3,000 post offices were a misunderstanding, U.S. Postal Service officials said today. The trouble started when USPS gave the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) a list of about 3,200 stations and branches that would be part of a study of which facilities to discontinue, the Postal Service said in a PRC filing today.

Postal officials provided the PRC today a list of 356 postal facilities where service has been suspended. But it asked the PRC to keep the list of post offices, stations, and branches secret for now