Columbus Day Holiday Schedule

Postal Operations Will Be Limited on October 8, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — United States Postal Service operations will be limited Monday, October 8, 2007, in observance of the Columbus Day holiday.

Postal operations on the holiday will be as follows:

There will be no regular home delivery, however, postal employees will be delivering Express Mail items.
There will be no retail window service at any United States Postal Service station or branch.
Customers using a debit or credit card can utilize the Automated Postal Centers at eight Indianapolis locations - Bacon, Castleton, Eagle Creek, Main Post Office, New Augusta, Nora, Park Fletcher and Southport. Other nearby cities with Automated Postal Centers are Bedford, Bloomington (Main and Woodbridge), Brownsburg, Carmel, Columbus, Fishers, Greenwood, Kokomo, Lafayette, Logansport, Noblesville, Plainfield, Richmond, Terre Haute, West Lafayette, Westfield and Zionsville. Automated Postal Centers are available 24 hours daily, every day of the week, including holidays and can conduct 80% of transactions available at postal retail counters such as mailing packages and purchasing postage.
Mail delivery will resume on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

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