Post Office With Bathtub and Shower Shut down
Sargeant, Minnesota — population, 76 — were worried about losing their post office. But effective Oct. 28 the 40-year old post office located in a mobile home is history. Postal Officials say the post office is it isn’t safe anymore
According to the Star Tribune:
It must be one of the few post offices around with a bathtub and shower. They’re not operational, however, and as of today, neither is the post office the in tiny southeastern Minnesota city of Sargeant.
The U.S. Postal Service issued an emergency order closing the office, notifying residents in September that the 40-year-old mobile home was a safety hazard with sagging floors, a deteriorating roof and walls in danger of rotting away.
There will still be delivery, to street-side mail boxes and to a new multiple box installed this week outside the post office. Customers can do all their business through the rural carrier, postal officials said.
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:24 am