By Mark Reaman | Crested Butte News
The Crested Butte town council is publicly expressing concern that the town might be without a U.S. Post Office a year from now. The council has tried to work with post office officials for close to three years now and offered to form a partnership where the town would provide a piece of land it owns across from Gothic Field on Sixth Street for a new building. But after what seemed like sometimes positive progress on the issue, the USPS bureaucrats would go silent.
The council last Monday authorized mayor Ian Billick to send a letter (see page 4) to the USPS laying out the potential dire situation coming after February 2026 when the post office lease on the current Elk Avenue location is anticipated to expire. The letter will also be copied to US senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and congressman Jeff Hurd.
“If nothing else, I would like to get it on the record that we see this as a serious issue,” said mayor Ian Billick at the January 6 council meeting.