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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Local mail no longer has Mount Ayr postmark
Starting Monday, July 2, mail deposited at the Mount Ayr post office no longer had a Mount Ayr postmark. Local mail had
been post-marked in Mount Ayr and then sent to Creston. But the Creston sorting center, once responsible for sorting mail
heading to locations whose zip codes began with 508, has closed its doors and mail will now be sorted in Des Moines
instead. The Mount Ayr and Creston post offices remain open. Creston's sorting center is not the only one that is being
closed. Carroll's processing center is being shut down as well, along with about 300 other under utilized sorting centers
nation wide. The consolidation effort is taking place due to the $20 million plus in losses that the United States
Postal Service (USPS) has seen over the past four years. The USPS has decided that downsizing is the only way for the
nation's mail service to remain feasible and cost effective. This change is not expected to affect service in Mount
Ayr. Residents of Creston and Carroll however will likely notice that delivery is not quite as quick as it was before the
change.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2012
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