SAN LEON — About 300 San Leon residents no longer will be able to pick up their mail from the post office on Bayshore Drive. The U.S. Postal Service ended its contract with the independent post office Saturday.
Dave Lewin, a spokesman for the regional operations of the postal service, said the post office at 902 East Bayshore Drive had been subsidized to provide 300 post office boxes.
Mail delivery in the area is handled by a rural mail carrier not affiliated with the privately run post office.
The post office did not provide any of the other traditional services, such as package drop off and retail services, such as the sale of collector stamps.
Budget cuts at the postal service meant the San Leon branch could no longer operate as an official U.S. Postal Service operation.
It could remain open as a private mail operation similar to Mail Boxes Etc. franchises.
Calls to the San Leon post office were not returned.
Lewin said customers who used the San Leon post office could get a post office box at the Kemah or Dickinson post offices.
They might also want to put a mailbox on their property, he said.
A post office in Bacliff does not have post office boxes, he said.
The 300 customers who will loose their post office boxes had already been notified of the change, Lewin said.
They could go online or stop at a U.S. Postal Service branch to fill out change of address cards to ensure their mail would get delivered to a new address.
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Where To Go
The San Leon Post Office close Saturday. Customers of that station can use one of the nearby post offices.
