Childwold Post Office Reopens Tuesday

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Operations at the Childwold Post Office will resume on Tuesday, May 20, after a shutdown of the site that lasted than two months. Water and sewer repairs requiring attention by the leaseholder have been complete, postal officials explained.

Retail sales and post office box distribution resume tomorrow. There is no delivery service provided directly by the Childwold Post Office.

Approximately 30 box holders of that office received mail service through the Piercefield Post Office, also in St. Lawrence County, as postal officials worked to secure needed site repairs.

The Childwold Post Office, located at 9716 State Route 3, operates from 8:15 am to 10:15 am then from 2:30 pm until 4:30 pm on weekdays. Saturday hours are 8 am to noon.

About 130,000 people live year round in its 105 towns and villages in the Adirondack Park. More than 140 post offices are found inside, or at the perimeter of, the 6-million acre mix of public and private lands, added officials.

As the closest Post Office to the site of the current Childwold site, Piercefield was chosen to absorb Childwold’s operations during what postal officials called an emergency suspension. Childwold’s postmaster was also reassigned pending the completion of work to the office’s safety and sanitation issues.

The Postal Service's Albany District reaches more than 3.5 million postal customers served by 720 Post Offices in an area that stretches from the Massachusetts and Canadian borders west to Waterloo and south to Binghamton and the Southern Tier. This includes post offices in Childwold, Piercefield and throughout the Adirondack Park.

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