Local Post Offices

Although their numbers are dwindlingIs Your Post Office Closing? USPS Is Studying Shuttering 3,700 Locations, nearly every community in Portland has a local post office. One reason post offices are closing down -- according to Save the Post Office -- is due to a "phony financial crisis" that has "forced (the Postal Service to) spend nearly 10% of its budget pre-funding retiree health benefits 75 years in advance. No other U.S. agency or private business faces such a crushing financial burden."Save the Post Office Rally and March - Portland Oregon
== Save the Post Office ==
It's true that much of the effort to privatize the U.S. Postal Service flows out of the revolving door culture of public-private corruption. Now that the United States is considered a "mature" economy, the more acquisitive-minded turn their attention to looting institutional wealth -- like social security -- and public institutions like the Postal Service. The wide-scale asset-stripping and public looting that followed in the wake of the Soviet collapseHow Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impoverishes Russia – NeedlesslyAsset Stripping - A published collection of essays from survivingpeakoil.com provides an excellent roadmap for those seeking a similar plan for the United States as the U.S. continues sliding deeper into economic, social and political decline.U.S. Economy In Permanent Decline, Say 39 Percent of Americans: Poll
== Post Office Boxes ==
Many post office locations offer post office box rentals. Post office boxes are fine for receiving letter mail, but until 2012 package delivery to USPS post office boxes was not available from private carriers like UPS, FedEx and others. In early 2012, the Postal Service introduced a P.O. Box™ Street Address (PBSA) serviceGuide to Post Office Box Street Addresses (PBSA) that allows box-holders to combine the street address of the post office where their box is located with their post office box number into a street address format.Move to Competitive Locations with Street AddressingPost Offices™ with Enhanced PO Box™ Services (Dead link. Neither the original link nor Google's cached version work any longer.)“Street Addressing” Now Available For USPS P.O. Box Holders A mailing industry publication called the new service "a great service for people who already have a PO Box and don't want their packages delivered to their home."The New Addresses on the Block
USPS's Enhanced PO Box™ Services (of which P.O. Box™ Street Addressing is a part) have raised the ire of at least a few private-sector mailing and shipping centers. One UPS Store owner complained to the Postal Regulatory Commission, claiming the "new business practices place the United States Postal Service in direct and unequal competition with our businesses and thousands of other small businesses across the country."UPS Store Owner Asks PRC to Disallow Enhanced P.O. Box Service by USPS Postal customers have also complained. One box-holder claimed that UPS refused to deliver her package to her "enhanced" P.O. Box.Get over yourself, UPS
=== Post Office Box Address Formats ===
Shown below is PortlandWiki's post office box address formatted in the standard P.O. Box and P.O. Box™ Street Address (PBSA) formats.
; Standard P.O. Box Address Format
:PORTLANDWIKI
:PO BOX 4524
:PORTLAND OR 97208-4524
; P.O. Box™ Street Address (PBSA) Format
:PORTLANDWIKI
:715 NW HOYT ST UNIT 4524
:PORTLAND OR 97208-2671According to the Postal Service's Zip Code Lookup tool.
; Relevant Documents
* Guide to Post Office Box Street Addresses (PBSA)
* Customer Agreement Letter - Announcing new post office box services, including P.O. Box™ Street Address, Signature on File and Real Mail Notification™.
* Customer Agreement for PO Box Services - Copy of the actual form a PortlandWiki admin filled out to activate P.O. Box™ Street Address, Signature on File and Real Mail Notification™ services.
== Post Office Locations ==
250px|thumb|Reduced lobby hours at Portland's main post office, located at 715 NW Hoyt St.
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POST OFFICE 	STREET 	CITY 	STATE 	ZIP 	PHONE
Brooklyn 	1410 SE Powell Boulevard 	Portland	Oregon	97202	(503) 236-0256
Central 	204 SW 5th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97204	(503) 294-2564
Cherry Blossom DCUDetached Carrier Unit (DCU) 	10445 SE Cherry Blossom Drive 	Portland	Oregon	97216	(503) 408-0265
CPUCPU: Contract Postal Units Cedar Hills Mart & Mall 	10170 SW Park Way 	Portland	Oregon	97225	(503) 297-5755
CPUCPU: Contract Postal Units Holiday Card Shoppe 	5117 SW MacAdam Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97239	(503) 274-1361
CPUCPU: Contract Postal Units Hollywood 42nd Street Station	2000 NE 42nd Avenue, Suite D 	Portland	Oregon	97213	(503) 824-8381
CPUCPU: Contract Postal Units Lambs @ Stroheckers 	2855 SW Patton Road, Suite C 	Portland	Oregon	97201	(503) 223-7391
CPUCPU: Contract Postal Units Lambs Garden Home Thriftway 	7410 SW Oleson Road 	Portland	Oregon	97223	(503) 244-9263
CPUCPU: Contract Postal Units More Than Mail 	6327 SW Capitol Highway, Suite C 	Portland	Oregon	97239	(503) 245-3698
CPUCPU: Contract Postal Units Woodstock Safeway 	4515 SE Woodstock Boulevard 	Portland	Oregon	97206	(503) 788-9037
Creston 	5010 SE Foster Road 	Portland	Oregon	97206	(503) 788-9037
East Portland 	1020 SE 7th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97214	(503) 234-6182
Forest Park 	1706 NW 24th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97210	(503) 228-5412
Holladay Park 	815 NE Schuyler Street 	Portland	Oregon	97212	(503) 282-0950
Kenton 	2130 N Kilpatrick Street 	Portland	Oregon	97217	(503) 735-9816
Lents at Easport 	3850 SE 82nd Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97266	(503) 774-1522
Lents DCUDetached Carrier Unit (DCU) 	8100 SE Crystal Springs Boulevard	Portland	Oregon	97206	(503) 774-4938
Midway Postal Retail Store 	400 SE 103rd Drive 	Portland	Oregon	97216	(503) 251-2727
Milwaukie 	11222 SE Main Street 	Portland	Oregon	97222	(503) 654-1643
Multnomah 	7805 SW 40th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97219	(503) 452-3112
Piedmont 	630 NE Killingsworth Street 	Portland	Oregon	97211	(503) 282-5025
Portland Main Post Office 	715 NW Hoyt Street 	Portland	Oregon	97208	(503) 525-5398
Rose City Park 	2425 NE 50th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97213	(503) 282-4761
Sellwood DCUDetached Carrier Unit (DCU) 	8816 SE 17th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97202	(503) 232-9566
Sellwood Retail Store 	6723 SE 16th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97202	(503) 234-3246
Solomon Courthouse 	620 SW Main Street, Suite 101 	Portland	Oregon	97205	(503) 294-2399
University 	1505 SW 6th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97201	(503) 274-1362 (Closed)
West Slope 	3225 SW 87th Avenue 	Portland	Oregon	97225	(503) 203-8705
 	 	 	 	 	
== References ==
== External Links ==
* USPS.com® - Find Locations
* Locations of USPS Collection Stations (blue mailboxes) and post offices in PORTLAND, Oregon.
* Post Office™ Locations near 97208 (Near main Portland post office.)
* USPS Abbreviations Glossary - Numeric
* USPS Abbreviations and Acronyms
=== Tools ===
* SmartyStreets: Address verification, validation, and autocomplete.
: Do you want to verify an address you just scraped off the web? Toss the whole lot into SmartyStreets' address field and hit the Verify button. No need to separate out the city, state and zip portions of the address.
* zipLookup
: zipLookup is a lightweight JSON based (no database) look-up script that uses a pre-configured list of json files to perform a zip-code look-up on (nearly) all available zip-codes. Test it here.
* Ziptastic!
: Ziptastic is a simple API that allows people to ask which Country,State and City are associated with a Zip Code.
* Zipcode Lookup
: This tool will perform a bulk look-up of zipcodes in a CSV spreadsheet and add missing State / Town information for you, in a single batch.
=== News & Commentary ===
* Elizabeth Warren Proposes Replacing Payday Lenders With The Post Office
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