How the loss of a post office is creating unrest in one Alabama city
Spanish Fort has grown a whopping 34% in the past nine years. It remains a growing city, with expanding schools, growing subdivisions and shopping malls.
But the city is about to be without a post office. In a move that has outgoing U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne “very frustrated,” the city’s sole post office – located within a strip mall – is set to close by Jan. 15. The 700 occupied P.O. boxes within the Spanish Fort facility will then be relocated to the Daphne Post Office.
“I just don’t understand why they would take the post office away from the good people of Spanish Fort,” said Byrne, a Republican from Fairhope who is leaving office on Jan. 3. “The discussions we were having with them is that they indicated they were not going to do that and that they would maintain a presence in Spanish Fort and maintain post office boxes there.”
He added, “I am disappointed with the postal service but I don’t think that will get resolved between now and Jan. 3.”
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