March 4, 2013

Contact: Christine Dugas 401-276-3915 Christine.dugas@usps.gov

US Postal Service Announces Plans for Derby Post Office

The Plan provides for a new Derby Post Office
The United States Postal Service announced that it is considering plans to sell the Derby Post Office building, located at 74 Olivia Street in Derby, Connecticut. The plan includes securing right-sized space for a new Derby Post Office which will continue to provide postal services to the community. The property was the subject of a study last year that found that delivery operations could feasibly be moved to a nearby postal facility in Shelton, allowing the Postal Service to sell the 12,000 square-foot building and to seek right-sized space for a new retail Post Office in Derby. This new facility would require approximately 1,100 square feet of space. Postal officials recently met with Derby Mayor Anthony Staffieri to inform the City of the plans and to reassure City officials, businesses and residents that if the building is sold that the Postal Service would retain a retail Post Office in Derby. If the building does not sell, no changes would be made. "The important piece of this is that the City of Derby, at the very least will have a new retail postal facility which will remain in Derby," said Mayor Staffieri In addition, this underutilized building can be sold for retail/commercial space and add to our tax base downtown, said the Mayor Postal Officials have asked to get on the agenda for Derbys March 28th public meeting at Derby City Hall to explain details of the plan to the city's residents and business owners. A self-supporting government agency, the Postal Service receives no tax dollars for its operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products, and services to fund its operations. In order to sustain universal mail service to the American people, it is imperative that the Postal Service adjust its retail, delivery and mail processing networks to match Americas changing communication needs. Information concerning USPS properties presently for sale can be found at www.uspspropertiesforsale.com.
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A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation: 152 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With more than 31,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world's mail. If it were a private-sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 42nd in the 2012 Fortune 500. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for seven years and the fourth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.