Postal Service to Observe July 4th Holiday

Brooklyn / Queens / Staten Island, N.Y. — Postal retail units will be closed and mail delivery curtailed on Friday, July 4th in observance of the Independence Day national holiday. Only Express Mail, which is delivered 365 days a year, will be delivered on Friday, July 4th. Customers needing access to postal retail services in the New York City area on Independence Day can use the James A Farley Post Office, which is open 24/7 - 365 days a year. The James A. Farley Post Office is located at 421 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan across the street from New York Penn Station. Normal postal retail operations and mail delivery service will resume on Saturday, July 5th.

Extensive postal information, including post office and alternate retail access locations, is always available online at usps.com.

# # #

Please Note: For broadcast quality video and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS Newsroom at www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/welcome.htm.

An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation — 146 million homes and businesses. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. The Postal Service has annual revenues of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.