I would think that you could close the Chartley post office as the attleboro office is just up the street.

I love the hustle and bustle of a good old fashioned post office!

Might make more sense to get rid of curbside service and keep the offices open. One thing is for sure, it is a terrible business model!

I would definately miss the Bristol Office. All the employees there have great personalities. And, I get great service from them. Plus the ladies wouldn't get any more candy from Tommy Vocarro! And no more hand stamps for the kiddies!

Absolutely. Although stamps can be bought online, places to deposit mail (old collection boxes) are few and far between. Then there is the occasional package to be weighed and mailed. Given a choice, I'd prefer a raise in postal rates or giving up Saturday delivery to the closing of an office.

I don't even know where it is, if closing a few brick and mortar sites means our home delivery continues uninterrupted I say go for it.

Some of the postal workers will not be missed as they don't seem too happy to be there anyway. Christmas rush is always a mess as it is...

I like having a convenient (easy to drive in an out) local post-office and would not be happy if it closed. I prefer not to get mail on a Friday and Saturday. It ruins my weekend if I get something in the mail that I cannot take care of until Monday (when the company is open). Maybe cutting back a couple of days delivery would help with the postal debt.

I would rather see the Middletown branch close than the Broadway PO. I always have quick and courtious service at Broadway compared with the Middletown branch. The people who work there are MISERABLE and the service agravatingly slow.

I have to say I would not. Really do not use it at all anymore. Get stamps and do most other things on-line.

I find the Portsmouth Post Office to be well run and friendly for the twenty-some years I have been using it, both personally and for my business. In my travels I find most small town PO's function well, even the tiny ones, while the bigger the city, the worst the PO service.

For those interested, more information:

http://www.savethepostoffice.com/

the mail is to slow,
how long does it take for letter mailed in woon. from a woon. address to a woon. address,Had 1 mailed to me the last week in june and here now it is OCT . and not here yet,now thats service.

I do everything online, except postage. There's something nostalgic about going to the post office. Personally, I like it be/c it's "personal". It's as simple as that. There's not many places that you can go today to purchase the same thing for the same price and expect the same uniform service...except Starbucks of course!

Yes! I would definitely miss the Seekonk branch if it closed down. I am there nearly every day! I have a home business and prefer to keep a PO box for that mail versus my home address. The staff has known my kids since they were babies coming in with me in their infant carriers and they've always gone above and beyond with kindness and personal attention. On my trips to the PO I always bump into people I know that I don't often get to see and it creates a hometown collectiveness that you don't seem to find much of these days. I would hate for my kids to miss out on this important piece of our US history.

Attleboro's 'new' PO was built on border with Norton! Could not get further from the center of Attleboro where it use to be!
I won't miss it.
Cut Sat deliveries.Make all local delivery vehicles gas or electric. Combine a PO with general store - or a Starbucks - near population center of town.

Portsmouth PO would definitely be missed. I have a PO Box and would definitely miss having that. Cut Saturday deliveries. Five days a week would get all important mail to you. Don't like doing business on line.

I would rather see home delivery cut back by 1 or 2 days than close the Seekonk post office. Although I only use it occasionally, it's always busy when I go there.

So many Post offices,no wonder they are in the red. East Prov. has 3, Rumford, Riverside and across from City Hall. Then we have the Seekonk office and the Industrial highway Pawtucket. Those 5 are about 5 miles apart from each other.

rearrange the pay system, drop alot of management,

IMO, the reason the Seekonk Post Office is so busy is because it is poorly staffed. As I posted before, keep the offices open and charge a fee for home delivery. Who stopped ordering pizza delivery when the restaurants began charging?
I would pay, especially if they brought AND picked up the mail at my door a couple times a week. I don't use my mailbox because of all the hooligans that roam the street.
I would even pay extra to have them NOT deliver all the junk mail I receive, which is the majority.

Would definitely miss it. I've found they've had better rates on shipping vs other big name companies. Not to mention, they're located in every town. I like the face to face interaction. Would be very disappointed to have to send back wrongly delivered mail or get stamps "remotely" or online.

i wont say what branch i am talking about but the branch i go into would NOT be missed by me or my family. everyone that works in there is so unhappy to be there, they dont want to help you. i dont mind waiting in line but when you make it to them they are just very unhappy. the next one that smiles at me will be the first one to do it. so that local branch can go away.

no i wont miss it

the branch i go in could close and my family and i would not care they are all misrable. the next one that smiles at me will be the first one to do it. its not about the long lines or the waiting in line. its the empoylees they just dont wait to be there.

My understanding is that the only reason the post office is losing money is because of decades-old pension and health benefit obligations. I wonder if anyone can confirm this.

The service at the Chartley Post Office is GREAT!!!
The service at the wrongly-situated Attleboro Post Office is usually lousy!
The REAL problem with the USPS is that they're massively top-heavy with needless
'management' jobs in big cities, most particularly in Washington, D. C. !

I TOTALLY AGREE with Jerry (perhaps this is a first)...but seriously Chartley Post Office is GREAT! (and btw Norton has TWO post offices) To lose Chartley would be terrible! Brenda is the greatest!

The USPS is in the red because it is a government agency. Deb is correct, they have a no layoff clause that only congress could change and they work 6 days instead of 5. They don't charge enough, too many benefits, too many post offices, letter carriers and supervisors. It's a ponzi scheme!

The USPS has become a tool for direct marketers - junk mail. We pay the highest rates and they pay the least while bombarding us with junk mail.

Well, to be fair, Attleboro also has two: South Attleboro . . . which, for some is
half-way to Providence, where all the outgoing is sent anyway. And Providence picks up six days a week until 7:00 p.m.! And, yes, I DO like Saturday deliveries!

Close the PO branch on the Naval Station in Newport. All citizens can utilize the Middletown PO, but only the military can use the Navel Station. Why keep open a PO that 90% of the local population can't have any access to.

when you go from one apo to another, when your on a ship at sea, when you are injured or wounded on duty, the miltary PO tracks you better than the usps ever will