U.S. Postal Service

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

The Colorado Sun, Approved, Local / / ,

For three years, the town of Crested Butte has labored to find a new place for its 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. 

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

Approved, Crested Butte News, Local / / ,

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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Landrith: The Postal Grinch who stole rural Coloradans’ Christmas

Approved, coloradopolitics.com, Commentary / /

The role of the United States Postal Service (USPS) is to bind the nation together by delivering to all Americans. It is based in the Constitution and enshrined in statute they must deliver mail and packages together to everyone everywhere six days a week. This not only unites the nation and creates a pathway to knit the 3.7 million square miles of our nation together, but it also provides a strong network for commerce and the delivery of needed goods.

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