Hudson Valley Post Offices Expand Holiday Hours

HUDSON VALLEY, NY – The U.S. Postal Service has extending hours to help people get their holiday mailing done, and Sunday is the last in the series. Seven District Post Offices in Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties extended retail business and package pick-up hours to Sundays, and another 22 have had Sunday pick-up hours for customers with delivery attempt notices.

The District Post Offices offering Sunday hours from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Dec. 17 are:

• Brewster, 3 Mount Ebo Rd North
• Middletown, 40 Fulton St.
• * Monroe, 787 State Route 17 M
• New City, 245 North Main Street.
• New Rochelle, 255 North Ave.
• Poughkeepsie, 55 Mansion St.
• White Plains, 100 Fischer Ave.
• Yonkers Main Post Office, 79-81 Main St.

* Monroe offers Sunday hours throughout the year.

Plus, 22 more Post Offices in Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester will be open for package pick-up only on Dec. 17 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. for those customers who received a delivery attempted notice.

Those are: Carmel, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Mount Vernon, Monsey, Nanuet, Ossining, Pawling, Peekskill, Port Chester, Rye, Scarsdale, Tarrytown, Warwick, Yonkers - Bronxville, Yonkers - Centuck, Yonkers - East, Yonkers - Greystone, Yonkers – Hastings On Hudson, Yonkers –South, Yonkers – Tuckahoe, and Yorktown Heights.

The Postal Service will deliver more than 15 billion pieces of mail this holiday season, which includes 850 million packages. That is a 10 percent increase in package volume compared to the same period last year, officials said.

With an increase in early and online shopping for gifts, there is no longer a “busiest day” for holiday shipping. Instead, the Postal Service’s busiest time is now two weeks before Christmas.

The week of Dec. 18 - 24 is predicted to be the busiest mailing, shipping, and delivery week. During this week, nearly 3 billion pieces of First Class Mail, including greeting cards, will be processed and delivered. The Postal Service also expects to deliver nearly 200 million packages per week.

PHOTO/ Lanning Taliaferro