Temporary, alternative post offices open for evacuated areas
The U.S. Postal Service has been unable to deliver mail to hundreds of thousands of homes because of the wildfires burning across Southern California, postal officials said.
Fire, wind and smoke halted mail service to many neighborhoods abandoned across Southern California because of mandatory evacuations ordered by fire officials.
Postal Service spokesman Richard Maher said 25 post offices were closed Tuesday, mostly in San Diego and San Bernardino counties.
He said deliveries to 478,096 homes and businesses throughout Southern California could not be made. One post office in Green Valley Lake, near Lake Arrowhead, burned down.
Maher said postal officials were setting up alternative post offices where evacuees could pick up their mail.
