Norwood Post Office to Remain Open

WASHINGTON - Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.) Tuesday announced that the Norwood Branch of the U.S. Postal Service located in Knoxville, Tennessee, has been removed from the U.S. Postal Service’s Candidates for Consolidation (Closure) list.

“I was very pleased to hear the news that the Norwood Post Office is remaining open.  I received many letters, e-mails, and phone calls on this matter, and my staff and I were in close contact with the Postal Service in an effort to keep this facility open for the Norwood community,” Duncan said.

“While this is certainly good news now, I encourage everyone who wants the Norwood branch to stay open in the future to patronize its services.  If the U.S. Postal Service continues to lose big money, there is always the chance that it could put the Norwood office back on a similar list at some later point,” Duncan continued. 

The Postal Service receives no taxpayer money to operate the Nation’s mail service.  Revenues from the sale of postage, products and services fund its entire operation. At the end of October, the Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion.
 
The U.S. Postal Service has over 36,000 locations around the Country, and it is the largest retail network in the United States.