A national delivery change for U.S. Post Offices has hit the Babbitt area as well.
Mail sent from Babbitt will now leave by 7 a.m., instead of 9:45 a.m. as before. This means anything brought into the Post Office or dropped off there will not leave until the next day.
Blue collection boxes around town will retain the current pickup time.
U.S. Post Offices nationwide have implemented changes to mail truck departure (dispatch) times as part of the U.S. Postal Service’s ongoing network modernization under the “Delivering for America” plan.
Previously, mail in Babbitt was dropped off around 7:30 a.m. and then left town by 9:45 a.m.
The change to dropping off and picking up at the same time went into effect on May 8.
“For us this is unfortunately another example of the U.S. Postal Service taking longer to deliver,” said Babbitt Weekly News publisher Nick Wognum.
“We had heard this was coming, but now that it’s here, we’re going to have to see what we can do so people don’t have to wait an extra day to get their paper if they live outside of Babbitt,” said Wognum.
