Northern NJ Post Offices to Observe Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday

Only Express Mail to be delivered on federal holiday

Northern, NJ - The Postal Service observes Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on Monday, January 19, 2009 as a holiday. All post offices in the Northern New Jersey area will be closed. There will be no mail delivery except for Express Mail.

For customer convenience, 11 post offices in the Northern New Jersey area offer 24-hour access to Automated Postal Centers. “The APC provides quick, easy, and convenient access to postal services,” says District Manager, Maria Morse. “Just as an ATM is a virtual stand-alone bank, the APC is a virtual stand-alone Post Office. But unlike the ATM, there’s no transaction fee.

Customers can find 24-hour APC service at the following post offices:

Caldwell, 155 Clinton Road West Caldwell, NJ 07006	Rahway, 123 E Milton Avenue Rahway, NJ 07065
Newark, 2 Federal Square Newark, NJ 07102	Ridgewood, 143 E Ridgewood Avenue Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Paramus, 35 E Midland Avenue Paramus, NJ 07652	South Plainfield, 114 Oak Tree Road South Plainfield, NJ 07080
Parsippany, 3299 US Hwy 46 E Parsippany, NJ 07054	Summit, 61 Maple Street Summit, NJ 07901
Clifton, 1114 Main Avenue Clifton, NJ 07015	Edgewater , 770 River Road Edgewater NJ 07020
Sparta, 2 Main Street Sparta, NJ 07871

# # #

Please Note: For broadcast quality video and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS Newsroom at www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/welcome.htm.

An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation — 146 million homes and businesses. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. The Postal Service has annual revenues of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.