Emergency Change Of Address For Childwold Post Office

Customers Must Visit Piercefield Starting Saturday

Instead of accepting a change of address, the Childwold Post Office is filing one.

On Saturday, Mar. 1, the Piercefield Post Office will welcome Childwold customers as the St. Lawrence County hamlet's post office was shuttered for reasons of sanitation and safety.

Postal officials report that the Postal Service made a decision to relocate post office box and window services away from its site at 9716 State Route 3 in Childwold after attempts to remedy conditions were not completed. At close of business on Friday, a poster was placed in the Childwold window with details on the move to Piercefield.

The Piercefield Post Office, located at 39 Waller Street, will serve approximately 30 post office box holders from Childwold. Each box holder will be assigned a new key as part of their first visit to Piercefield. Affected residents will continue to use their current Childwold address.

Weekday window hours at the Piercefield Post Office are 8 am to noon and 1 pm until 4:45 pm. Saturday hours in Piercefield are 9 am to noon for access to post office boxes and window services. Customers to the Piercefield Post Office are encouraged to use extra caution in the first days of this transition as Childwold customers visit the site, possibly for the first time.

No timetable for a return of postal services to the community has been established.

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