The US Postal Service has officially issued a notification that the Pimmit Branch Post Office, located at 7520 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA (in the Trader Joe's shopping center), will discontinue operations effective close of business on November 10, 2011. For more information about why this is necessary: Postal Service Faces New Reality (US Postal Service, September 15, 2011)
If you receive mail at your home, there will be NO change. If you have a post office box at the branch, you have the option of either receiving mail at your residence or getting a post office box at the Falls Church Finance Station located at 800 West Broad Street, Falls Church, VA, or other POB services at the Dunn Loring Branch or Merrifield Rental Unit. You may be entitled to a partial refund of your prepaid post office box rent. Movers Guides are included for your convenience to notify the Postal Service and correspondents of your new mailing address.
The Postal Service has developed a number of convenient ways to save customers a trip to the Post Office. You can buy stamps online through the USPS website or by phone at 1-800-STAMP24.
Their Click-N-Ship service on the website enables you to print shipping lables with postage for Express mail and Priority Mail and request that items be picked up via their Carrier Pickup Program.
You can also place your mail on hold, file a change-of-address order or request the redelivery of an item for which notice was left by calling 1-800-ASK-USPS or by going to the USPS website.
[Update: Pimmit Branch Post Office Closure Appeal]
