SIOUX FALLS, SD — Due to inclement weather, the U.S. Postal Service has postponed the temporary closure of the Sioux Falls Main Post Office for one week. This will allow postal customers with P.O. boxes in the Main Post Office to pick up their mail at the downtown location until Friday, March 9.

Box customers will need to remove all mail from their boxes by [enter time] Friday.

The Main Post Office will temporarily relocate to a building located across the street at the southwest corner of 12^th Street and Second Avenue. The move is needed to accommodate a remodeling project that is projected to take about eight months.

Effective Monday, March 12, new hours will be observed at the temporary location until the remodeling is complete. The retail window will be open from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. Pick-up of Post Office box mail hours will be: 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday; 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday; and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

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An independent federal agency, the Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation — 146 million homes and businesses — six days a week and also has 37,000 retail locations. It relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. USPS has annual revenues of $73 billion and delivers more than 46 percent of the world's mail volume.