Did You Know...

• Downtown Pensacola has always had a post office since the 1800s. The original post office in this part of the state was in downtown Pensacola.
  
• Of the five post offices in Pensacola, the downtown station branch is the third most profitable.
  
• There are 607 private sector businesses and 558 residential households ( 2002 residents) and almost 10,000 employees within Downtown Pensacola that depend upon the post office.
• Many of our downtown residents walk to the post office for services because they lack a car to drive themselves.
• Downtown Pensacola is the only neighborhood in the City that is actually adding households and residents; but it is the one that will be without a post office
• The proposed location for the consolidation of the downtown postal station ( Jordan Street) is three (3) miles one way from the existing downtown post office – or 6 miles round trip.
• Scores of our downtown businesses and professional firms visit the post office multiple times each day. Having to travel such a distance would seriously impact their productivity.
• Downtown Pensacola is one of the few areas of our community where the density is great enough that it makes more sense to walk instead of drive.
• Putting so many additional vehicles on the street for multiple times each day ( driving to the post office on Jordan Street) would negatively impact our environmental quality.
• The downtown post office is an anchor for commerce and a community focal point for downtown and Pensacola.
• The intersection outside the downtown station has one of the highest volume of pedestrian traffic in all of Pensacola.
• Many of the 1948 postal box holders in the downtown station have held their PO boxes for decades with some holding it for more than 45 years.
• Downtown revitalization has been a major goal of the City and the Community for many years. Much progress is being made. To lose an anchor like the post office would be devastating.
• The decision to close/consolidate will be made by early October 2009.  Actual closure is planned for sometime before September 30, 2010.

Pass It On

Do you know of anyone else who will suffer the impact of the post office closing? Please make them aware of this meeting.