Post Office @ Smith's closed (Albuquerque: organic, living in, groceries)

[bobnabq1]

The branch Post Office at Smith's grocery (Montgomery NE and Louisiana NE) has closed.
A clerk told me it happened around August 16th.

[yukon]

I'm surprised. That location was always busy.

[bobnabq1]

Originally Posted by yukon

I'm surprised. That location was always busy.

Yes. There were usually people waiting for it to open, and a small line waiting for service.

[Zoidberg]

I read it mentioned on another site that the decision to close it was Kroger's, not the USPS'.

They always seem happy to refer you to the new for-profit PO about 2 miles northwest on Osuna. Still haven't been to that one.

This Smith's was the closest place to mail a package USPS for about 20% of Albuquerque, for about half the people living in 87109, 87110, and 87111 each.

I'll never forget how they used to be open later than any real post office (sometimes 'til 8pm and even on Sundays), and then that got curtailed, and then they scheduled their lunch break (unapologetically shutting the gates) for an hour around 3pm, but it was always when you wanted to mail a package.

As that Smith's decides to turn that space into something like their new seafood counter, organic produce, or maybe a corporate-branded coffee bar, it'll remind me as I look at it how if I don't like that they take needed services like that away, I don't have to shop there for my groceries.

[bobnabq1]

Originally Posted by Zoidberg

As that Smith's decides to turn that space into something like their new seafood counter, organic produce, or maybe a corporate-branded coffee bar ...

Well, at the present time, there is a stack of soda cartons about 10 feet high blocking the space previously used as the entrance to the P.O. location.