Crested Butte

Ghosted by USPS: Crested Butte faces losing its only post office

For three years, the town of Crested Butte has labored to find a new place for itsย overwhelmed U.S. post office. The town bought a parcel and began negotiating with builders, offering plans that involved the town either leasing the land to the Postal Service so it could build its own facility, the town building a new $12 million post office and leasing that to the service or even selling the land outright to the Postal Service.ย 

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What’s the future of the Crested Butte post office? Mayor is ‘blowing the whistle’

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.

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