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The Bloomingdale Post Office is closed to all but P.O. box mail delivery currently, and the USPS plans to reopen it Jan. 4.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) Post offices in Ray Brook, Bloomingdale, Rainbow Lake and Paul Smiths plan to reopen window, retail and package pick-up services Jan. 4, as long as they have enough healthy staff to do so. “Of course, this is always contingent upon the good health of all parties involved,” Maureen Marion, a communications director for the United States Postal Service’s Albany district, wrote in an email. These post office locations suspended all services but P.O box mail delivery on Dec. 21 after three employees at the Saranac Lake USPS location the hub feeding the four affected offices contracted the virus, causing employees at Ray Brook, Bloomingdale, Rainbow Lake and Paul Smiths to quarantine.
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On Sunday, Dec. 20 two postal workers from the Watertown area handle holiday packages on the Saranac Lake Post Office loading dock. The packages were driven over from the Ray Brook Post Office, which suspended package pick-up due to a COVID-19-related staff shortage on Monday, Dec. 21. (News photo Aaron Cerbone)
Post offices in Ray Brook, Bloomingdale, Rainbow Lake and Paul Smiths suspended window, retail and package pick-up services Monday, Dec. 21 due to limited staffing brought on by recent positive COVID-19 cases and quarantines; but the postal service is marshalling resources and employees to fulfill holiday mailing needs at alternate locations.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com On Sunday two postal workers from the Watertown area handle holiday packages on the Saranac Lake Post Office loading dock. The packages were driven over from the Ray Brook Post Office, which suspended package pick-up due to a COVID-19-related staff shortage today.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) The Bloomingdale Post Office is one of four suspending package, window and retail services through the end of the year, due to COVID-19-related staffing shortages.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone)
On Sunday two postal workers from the Watertown area handle holiday packages on the Saranac Lake Post Office loading dock. The packages were driven over from the Ray Brook Post Office, which suspended package pick-up due to a COVID-19-related staff shortage today.