16 Denver metro & Front Range Post Offices to participate in national Post Office Lobby Box Mail Recycling Program

DENVER, CO —Sixteen Post Offices along the Denver/Front Range area have been selected to participate in the first phase rollout of a new national U.S. Postal Service Post Office Box Mail Lobby recycling program starting Tuesday, Oct. 28. The new national program is called the “Read, Respond and Recycle” your mail Program.

The program allows those customers who have Post Office Boxes at that Post Office, to discard their opened and read Post Office Box mail only in recyclable blue containers or bins (pictured) in the lobby if they wish. 

All the bins are safe and secure. Each is locked with a key with a slim opening for the deposit of discarded mail only. PO Box customers who wish to participate are encouraged to pick up, open and to read their PO Box mail (read), take whatever action is necessary (respond), and place any of their discarded mail into the bin (recycle).

These 16 Post Offices participating in the program include the Denver Main Downtown, Mile High Downtown, Montbello and University Park Station Post Offices; the Littleton Main, Highlands Ranch, Centennial, Columbine Hills, and Ken Caryl Station Post Offices; the Arvada Main and Indian Tree Post Offices; the Golden Main Post Office; the Morrison Post Office; the Loveland Main Post Office; the Westminster Main Post Office and the Wheat Ridge Post Office.

Colorado’s Post Offices are part of approximately 280 larger Post Offices nationwide who have been selected to participate in this first phase of the program starting Oct. 28. Other large city Post Offices participating include those in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Sacramento and San Diego.

The Postal Service has a long and proud history of being an environmental leader. It recycles more than one million tons of mixed paper, plastics, used motor oil, metals and other materials annually. Colorado Post Offices have been very active in contributing to the huge recycling and pro-environmental green success of the U.S. Postal Service.

In addition to most of the read and discarded mail being recyclable, many of the containers that hold and move the mail are made from recycled materials, as are stamped envelopes, postcards, stamp booklet covers, and packaging materials. The U.S. Postal Service is the only shipping business in the U.S. to earn the “Cradle to the Cradle” certification by the environmental industry for its highly recyclable and safe composition of inks/materials used in its Priority Mail and Express Mail packaging. Even the adhesive used in its postage stamps is biodegradeable. More information on the Postal Service’s many pro-environmental activities, initiatives and programs can be found at usps.com/green.