USPS Postage Rates, Services and Stamps Increase

An a new stamp introduced this week will allow customers to mail letters anywhere in the world for one set price of $1.10.

The cost of sending most letters and packages increased slightly on Jan. 27, when the U.S. Postal Service adjusted its rates to help cover the costs of delivering the mail.  Forever Stamps, the ones that remain good despite future postal rate increases, increased to 46 cents. Those stamps, along with other postal service products, can be purchased at Hazelwood's United States Post Office, located at 6135 N Lindbergh Blvd. Remember you can like Hazelwood Patch on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HazelwoodPatch. Don't forget to visit Twitter: twitter.com/HazelwoodPatch, or signup for the Hazelwood Patch newsletter here. Here's a rundown of price increases: The USPS also introduced a new First-Class Mail Global Forever Stamp. The stamp allows …

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Holiday Package Shipping Deadlines for Christmas 2012

Want those cards and packages to arrive in time for Christmas? Find out the drop-dead dates from the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and UPS from Hazelwood.

If you want Santa Claus to arrive on time with holiday packages to military, international or U.S. destinations, the U.S. Postal Service has announced the dates those packages must be in the mail. So has FedEx and UPS. Here's what you need to know to get your packages to their destinations on time. Post Office Locations Here are the deadlines for shipping products from the Hazelwood Post Office. There is also a drop box at the USPS Bulk Mail Center located on Phantom Drive. Postal Service Shipping Deadlines Military Shipping Deadlines* Parcel Post service to all APO/FPO/DPO addresses was Nov. 13. Priority and First Class Mail was Dec. 3 to APO/FPO/DPO AE ZIP 093, and Dec. 10 to all other military addresses.  *The deadline for Dec. 25 …

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Consumer Alert

Priority Mail: Hazelwood's Post Offices to Survive as USPS Reviews Branches for Closure

The US Postal Service announced today it will consider closing thousands of branches.

In a move designed to streamline operations and save money, the United States Postal Service (USPS) will review more than 3,600 branches nationwide to decide which ones to close. The post office, along with the post office carrier annex and bulk mail center located on Phantom Drive in Hazelwood are not on the list of properties under review that the USPS released today. St. Louis branches under review: A spokeswoman for the USPS in St. Louis told Patch the study covers retail (branches) only, and stressed that delivery is not under review. “Customers have shown us that they no longer need a brick-and-mortar post office,” Valerie Hughes, USPS spokeswoman, said. She pointed to the USPS’s automated postal centers, mobile apps and online …

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Letter Carriers in Hazelwood and Metro St. Louis to Collect Food Saturday in Nationwide Drive

People throughout St. Louis County, including residents of the City of Hazelwood, will have the opportunity to donate nonperishable food items as part of the annual event.

Hazelwood residents will have the opportunity Saturday to donate food to people in need as part of the Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC). "Local food banks are at their crisis level," said Keith Brown, business manager for Acosta sales and marketing company and a representative of Campbell's, which sponsors the food drive. He said the economic downturn has left St. Louis area food banks in need. The comments came during a news conference at Schnucks in Richmond Heights. Letter carriers will collect donations of unopened, nonperishable food items left next to mailboxes. Goods can include peanut butter, soups and canned tuna. The St. Louis Area Foodbank received…

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Week in Review

Week in Review

Notes from the week of Dec. 20-25.

The week began with a few crimes that occurred throughout the season. Holiday coverage was everywhere on the site including the coverage of local Christmas babies and things people do on Christmas. We told you what area businesses would be open on Christmas, and showed you how to wrap gifts if you don't enjoy using wrapping paper. There was also coverage of a Maryland Heights man that won the lottery at a Missouri Bottom Road gas station, and we showed you some area firefighters doing a few good deeds for children in need. Hazelwood Patch also tuned you in to coverage of the first snow, and showed you what local businesses are doing to get their piece of the holiday shopping pie, including the post office. Check all these things out in a …

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Santa Claus Wears a Postal Uniform

Hazelwood postal workers deliver smiles, and your holiday cards and packages, on time.

Your mail carrier might not look like Santa Claus, but chances are he or she is an elf in disguise during the holidays. In fact, by the end of this holiday season, the United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers will have delivered nearly 16 billion cards, letters and packages to Americans nationwide. If you haven't mailed those last minute packages and holiday cards, you are one of many people along with Hazelwood resident Jeremiah Giles, that are leaning on the United States Post office to deliver a Christmas miracle. "I tried to," he said of mailing his gift in time for the recipient to receive it on Christmas Day. "It's a package for my church in Nashville (TN) Porter Heights Baptist Church." USPS estimates that Dec. 20 was the …

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