Corte Madera's Post Office Is Staying, Town Manager Says

CORTE MADERA, CA — Corte Madera's Town Manager Adam Wolff is reassuring residents that rumors of the death of the Post Office on Pixley Avenue have been greatly exaggerated.

On Friday, Wolff said that the U.S. Postal Service "has no plans to eliminate postal services in our Town, despite what USPS employees may be saying."

Wolff said he confirmed the information with U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, and the USPS district director.

Though the post office located at 7 Pixley Avenue does not appear to be closing, Wolff said that USPS is considering moving back-of-office operations elsewhere, such as trucking, mail sorting, and distribution. Public counter service, post office boxes, retail sales and other front-of-office functions would remain, Wolff said.

Residents have complained about the noise emitting from the operations center of the Pixley Avenue post office for two decades, according to Wolff, and he said noise has been increasing as truck deliveries come in late at night.

"I continue to work closely with Congressman Huffman's office and our Town Council to try and secure reliable and timely communications from USPS management so that rumors spread by USPS employees at the Pixley Post Office do not continue to mislead our community," Wolff said in the newsletter to residents Friday.

Wolff has been staving off rumors of the post office closing for weeks after inklings of a possible closure spread over social media. The website Save The Post Office, which is a page run by a New York man who wants to preserve the institutions, also had a headline in September reading "Post Office in Corte Madera, CA, to close."

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