Three Atlanta post offices on list for possible closure
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Three Atlanta U.S. Postal Service branches are on the list of 644 nationwide that may be closed as the mail delivery agency tries to cut its costs.
Two offices are in areas with a lot of tourist traffic — Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and CNN Center — and the third is on a stretch of Decatur Street lined by MARTA tracks and closed or struggling businesses.
A list of offices that may be closed or consolidated was given Thursday to a U.S. House subcommittee considering the future of American mail delivery.
“The writing is on the wall and the postal service obviously has to make some tough decisions if it wants to weather this storm,” Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) told Postal officials during the hearing.
“You better believe that if those post offices have to be closed I’m going to be besieged by people asking, ‘Please don’t close my post office,’” she said later, according to the Washington Post.
Officials believe less than a third — 200 —will be closed at the end of the review, however.
The three Atlanta offices are the only Georgia stations on the list.
The Atlanta offices are identified as the CNN Postal Store, which is inside the broadcast network-restaurant-hotel complex on Marietta Street across from Centennial Olympic Park, Hartsfield Postal Store inside the airport and Gate City Station, which is about a mile east of Georgia State University.
Meanwhile, some in Congress worried that the Postal Service was being impulsive.
“I’m afraid the Postal Service leadership has jumped to the conclusion that the only way to keep the Postal Service solvent is to cut back on hours of operation,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), said, according to the Washington Post.
That would present a problem for constituents who have long commutes and cannot get to post offices before late afternoon closings.
Like many industries, the Postal Service has struggled as the internet has become a more favored way to do stay in touch, to business and to pay bills.
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