Post offices open; delivery hours extended

Rocky Mountain News Staff

Published December 22, 2006 at midnight

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All post offices in Colorado and Wyoming are scheduled to be open with regular customer service today. Delivery will be made in areas where snow has been cleared and carriers have access to streets and mailboxes.

Postal customers are asked to shovel around mailboxes and to clear a safe pathway to mailboxes. In those cases where access and delivery is too difficult or unsafe, delivery will not be attempted by letter carriers.

Postal workers will be working extra hours in an attempt to process and deliver all the holiday mail by Christmas. Non-scheduled postal employees are also being asked to help out and report to work.

Postal workers in larger communities like the Denver metro and Colorado Springs metro areas will be making extra deliveries of holiday packages to customers on Christmas Eve (Sunday), as well as delivering Express Mail packages on Christmas Day.

Customers can also help out by taking their outgoing mail, if possible, directly to the post office. Postal customers who have received package delivery notices can also help out by picking up their packages directly at the post office.

The Postal Service asks for the patience and understanding of customers as some holiday deliveries are still expected to be delayed, due to the storm closing interstate highways, DIA and other major mail transportation routes into Colorado and Wyoming the past few days.

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