(New York) With little explanation, regional postal officials have imposed an embargo on outgoing letters and packages destined for Israel and Lebanon.

The U.S. Postal Service’s Westchester district office notified its post offices Thursday that the embargo would take effect Friday.

There was no indication when mail for the neighboring war-torn nations might again be accepted at post offices in Westchester, Rockland, Orange and parts of Putnam and Sullivan counties.

“I would say about 90 percent of our community, they mail stuff back to their family in Israel,” said Matthew Thomas, supervisor of customer service in the Monsey post office on Melnick Drive, which is located in a predominantly Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish community. Full Story from THE JOURNAL NEWS