Mellette Getting Post Office Back, 2 Years after Closure
MELLETTE, S.D. (AP) — A new post office is set to open in the northeastern South Dakota community of Mellette, two years after the old facility was deemed unsafe and shuttered.
The U.S. Postal Service suspended operations at the town's post office in May 2014, saying the building had deteriorated to the point where it was an emergency.
The Postal Service initially delivered Mellette's mail to Northville, nearly 5 miles away. That proved to be an inconvenience for Mellette's 200 residents, so the government set up boxes outside the old post office while the community built a new one.
The American News reports (http://bit.ly/1OgG8iW ) that the new building is scheduled to be inspected Wednesday. Postal Service spokesman Pete Nowacki tells the American News that the hope is to open the building soon after.
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