Meeting on Upham's Corner Post Office Closing

Submitted by alyssakeil on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 12:39pm

UPDATE! On Jan. 10, 2012, Upham's Corner Main Street (UCMS) sent out an update on this issue: "For those unaware, Congress and the U.S. Postal Service recently agreed to delay any potential post office closures until May 15th to allow Congress time to overhaul the financially strapped institution (for more information about the agreement, click here). For our community, this means that our post office will stay open at least until May. However, our work will continue. 

Regardless of the congressional decision, the community input period to voice concerns about the Upham's Corner post office closure remained unchanged. Aside from hundreds of mailed surveys that Upham's Corner residents and businesses mailed back to the USPS, UCMS, working with community partners at the Upham's Corner Health Center, Dorchester Bay EDC, Upham's Corner News, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Hancock Street Neighborhood Association, and UC Westside Neighborhood Association, led a petition writing campaign that solicited 3500+ signatures and letters in the month of December.

While the window for community input with the USPS has closed, our feedback as a community should transition into pressuring elected officials. Please call:
1. U.S. Senator John Kerry - (202) 224-2742
2. U.S. Senator Scott Brown - (202) 224-4543
3. U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch - (202)-225-8273  

Tell them why you value the Upham's Corner post office!  

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The U.S. Postal Service is planning on closing the Upham's Corner Post Office in the spring of 2012. Community residents and businesses alike use the Upham's Corner Post Office every day for: money orders, mail boxes, mailing packages overseas and throughout the United States, certified and registered letters, stamps, and much more. If the UC Post Office closes, residents would be required to travel to Fields Corner or Roxbury Crossing for postal services, which would be inconvenient and harmful to the economy of Upham's Corner.  Postal Service meeting on November 17 at Dorchester Bay EDC MLK room 402 at 594 Columbia Road in Dorchester. The meeting will be from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. For more information about the closing, please call Michael Foley, District Discontinuance Coordinator for the U.S. Postal Service at 617.654.5686.

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