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Post Offices Open Limited Hours on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve

In observance of the holidays, Post Offices will be closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

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All Post Offices in the Chicagoland area will be open on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, and New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, but will observe revised hours of operation.

All Post Offices, stations and branches in ZIP Codes 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607 and 608 will open at their regular times and close at noon Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, with the following exceptions:

  • Open at its regular time and close at 3 pm: St. Charles
  • Open at their regular times and close at 4 pm: Carol Stream and Oak Park (Main Post Office).
  • Open at their regular times and close at 5 pm: Aurora East, Batavia, Berwyn, Bolingbrook, Chicago Main Post Office, Joliet, Naperville (Main Post Office), Orland Park (Main Post Office), Palatine, Plainfield, Schaumburg Main Post Office), Skokie and Woodridge.
  • Open at their regular times and close as indicated Christmas Eve only: Bourbonnais (5:30 pm), Calumet City (7 pm), Lansing (7 pm) and Matteson (6 pm).
  • Open at their regular times and close as indicated New Year’s Eve only: Chicago Heights (6 pm), Kankakee (6 pm), Oak Forest (6 pm), and South Holland (7 pm).
Each Post Office will post its revised hours of operation for these two days.
Customers are encouraged to go online to usps.com or call 800-ASK-USPS for information about specific Post Offices. 

Commercial customers should check with their Business Mail Entry Units for Dec. 24 and Dec. 31 hours of operation. Mail will be delivered on those days as scheduled.

In observance of the holidays, Post Offices will be closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. 

Only Express Mail will be delivered on those days in most major metropolitan areas. Post Offices  will resume regular business hours on Thursday, Dec. 26 and Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014.

Postal services, including buying stamps and gifts, paying for postage and Post Office Boxes, and other transactions, are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at usps.com.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.


SOURCE: U.S. Postal Service
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