Customers will not be affected by changes, USPS says
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is making changes because of a decline in revenue, but local post offices, including those in Mill Spring and Saluda, will remain open.
According to USPS spokesperson Enola Rice, the route for the Mill Spring Post Office has changed to Columbus, but nothing changes for customers. The only change is where the postal workers sort the mail, according to Rice.
No decisions have been made regarding the possibility of changing Saluda’s route, Rice said.
Rice said the postal service is experiencing a huge decline in mailing. Over the last year, the postal service has lost $8.5 billion in revenue. This year so far, Rice said the postal service has lost $1 billion in revenue.
The postal service does not operate on tax dollars and survives purely on products and services, Rice said, so how efficient each post office is operating is being carefully examined.
Rice said changes are being considered nationwide to the USPS’s 32,000 facilities in order to maintain services into the future.
Rice said the customers at Mill Spring should notice no changes as post office boxes and mailing will remain the same although the route has changed.
Polk County has post offices located in Mill Spring, Saluda, Columbus, Lynn and Tryon.
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