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E-mail to save snail mail?
Downtown group posts survey on Web in effort to keep postal branch
Journal photo by David Rolfe
The Town Run Lane branch is one of nearly 400 nationwide that the U.S. Postal Service is considering for closure.
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Published: October 30, 2009
Updated: 10/30/2009 12:20 am
Advocates of downtown Winston-Salem are using the Internet in an effort to keep the U.S. Postal Service from closing the downtown post office.
The Postal Service is still considering closing the post office on Town Run Lane, off Second Street. It is the only branch in Winston-Salem on the agency's list. The others affected in the Triad are Plaza Station at 1852 Banking St. in Greensboro and Furnitureland at 913 W. Fairfield Road in High Point.
The postal service announced earlier this month that 371 retail stations and branches remain under consideration for possible consolidation in an effort to save money.
The Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership, a nonprofit group, sent out an e-mail to thousands of subscribers yesterday, asking for their help.
The branch has been distributing a survey to people who have post-office boxes there and to walk-in patrons. The downtown partnership asked for permission to put the survey on its Web site, and the post office agreed.
Justin Gomez, the partnership's director of marketing and operations, said that the partnership e-mailed the survey to its members in the hope that enough people would fill it out and keep the branch from closing.
"What we found when we started talking to some of our members is that a lot of people find this post office as useful and convenient, and they use it a great deal," Gomez said.
"A lot of people in downtown -- businesses, residences, small business owners -- are people that rely on that post office," he said.
The Postal Service hasn't said when it will decide whether to close the branch or not.
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