Steamboat Today, July 9, 2009

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S T E A M B O AT

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JULY 9, 2009

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

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Vol. 21, No. 163

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Steamboat Springs resident Heidi Pritchard drops her mail into a box at the post office branch in Sundance at Fish Creek shopping center Wednesday afternoon. A U.S. Postal Service plan states that sometime before Thanksgiving, all 2,584 boxes will be moved to the downtown post office location, but some hope for an alternative.

Post office plans debated USPS intent on moving Sundance boxes downtown; new location proposed Tom Ross

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City officials have a July 29 lunch date with postal officials, and all signs point to a pending case of indigestion. The U.S. Postal Service remains intent on closing down the Sundance at Fish Creek substation and transferring 2,584 postal boxes from that location to join 5,243 existing boxes at the downtown post office. Steamboat Springs City Council President Loui Antonucci made it plain

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how he feels about the matter. “Moving Sundance downtown would be a disaster,” Antonucci said. Antonucci previously had informed postal service officials in writing that the city views the plan as a threat to public safety. He cited the increased congestion and automobile traffic at Third Street and Lincoln Avenue — already one of the busiest intersections in the city. Council President Protem Cari Hermacinski added Wednesday that she and her colleagues are so concerned about

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safety and traffic issues in the area of the downtown post office, they intend to contact Colorado’s U.S. senators about the matter. However, Postal Service spokesman Al DeSarro said consolidating Sundance into the main post office always has been a part of the federal plan and now appears even wiser given the agency’s budget constraints. “It’s a prudent business decision,” DeSarro said Wednesday. “This was agreed to and discussed with the city. If we’ve got space in the main post office,

especially now, with the economy the way it is, it makes sense to use the space we have for that smaller operation.” The debate about moving the Sundance branch into the downtown facility is taking place against the background of another plan: to have a new main post office built by a private developer near the intersection of U.S. Highway 40 and Pine Grove Road in the proposed City South commercial center. See Post office, page 14

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