Tampa, Fla. — The United States Postal Service says it still has 17 Bay area post office locations closed as a result of damage from hurricanes Helene and Milton, but it is scrambling to resume normal operations as soon as possible.
Aside from more than a dozen post offices being shut down, carriers are also dealing with a sizable backlog of mail that stacked up during both hurricanes.
The USPS Tampa Region did not respond to request for comment from Spectrum News, but in a statement this week, USPS says it is working hard to reopen its facilities and resume normal mail delivery, but it says “there is significant work to be done to deliver a backlog of mail and packages and reopen routes in the areas hit hardest by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The full recovery of service to the area may stretch forward for some time.”