[Hawkwind]

Can anyone tell me where the local US post office is located? Staying in Bonnybrook if that helps. Thanks.

[Best Mom]

The closest US Post Office to you is just 2 miles away. Take 466 to 301 in Oxford. Turn right and go a very short distance to County Rd 201 on the left. It might be easier to go by it and make a U turn and turn right on 201. It is a small building in a bunch of trees. There is a US Post Office sign on 301.
It will be busy so plan on a wait this time of year.

[Skip]

And it opens 1/2 hour earlier (8:30 AM) than all the other Post Offices near The Villages.

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http://usps.whitepages.com/post_office/search?z=32162

[Peazoup]

and..........the Oxford Post Office is a very friendly place. There is a long line this time of year, but it moves very quickly. Me too - I'm in Bonnybrook so I go up Belvedere, left on 466, right on 301 at the traffic light and it's up a block on the left hand side.

[SABRMnLgs]

I still don't understad this:


Oxford-pop. around 3000 ........... post office yes
Weirsdale-pop around 2500 ........ post office yes
Summerfield-pop aound 5000 ...... post office yes
Lady Lake-pop around 5-10,000 .. post office yes
The Villages-pop around 70,000 .. post office NOOOoo (DUH)

[Hawkwind]

Could it be that the communities are chartered townships / town / cities where TV are considered a CDD? What are the requirements for your own zip code?

In Ohio where I live almost everything south of Akron is in the 44685 zip code and this covers two counties, a number of townships, towns and part of one city.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by Hawkwind

What are the requirements for your own zip code?

Answer: Expected volume of mail. Some corporations even have their own zip code. "The Villages" was a courtesy (alternate) designation for Lady Lake 32159 and 32162.

32163 is next and that will be for The Villages only (and exclude Lady Lake). Feel better now?

Any newbie have 32163 zip for their address yet? Should be coming up pretty soon.

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[Sidney Lanier]

Originally Posted by SABRMnLgs

I still don't understad this:


Oxford-pop. around 3000 ........... post office yes
Weirsdale-pop around 2500 ........ post office yes
Summerfield-pop aound 5000 ...... post office yes
Lady Lake-pop around 5-10,000 .. post office yes
The Villages-pop around 70,000 .. post office NOOOoo (DUH)

Simple: We here in TV are surrounded by post offices in the neighboring towns! We personally travel about the same distance to the post office in Oxford as we do in our rural town in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York State. And unfortunately, neither there nor here can we do it by golf cart....

[SABRMnLgs]

Sorry folks, maybe I'm just not smart, but I think a town the size of the Villages at 70,000 souls has a need for a post office a lot more than a smaller town. Maybe even two, one North and one South of 466. What part of 70,000 versus 2500 is hard to figure out?

I used to live down the road in Oviedo which was about half the size of the Villages and we had one full service and two or three satellite post offices. I am glad for the smaller cities around TV having their PO. And I am not saying they should not have them. I just don't understand why a town the size of TV can't get at least one full service PO.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by SABRMnLgs

Sorry folks, maybe I'm just not smart, but I think a town the size of the Villages at 70,000

The Villages isn't a town. It's not anything. Be glad the PO lets us use "The Villages, FL. 32159" for our address. The developer would love to see the Post Office open a branch (maybe two branches, no, ten branches!), so it can lease the land to the feds for 50 years at a time. But opening more branches within The Villages is like dealing with a "middleman". It's just more work for them. As long as the Lady Lake P.O. on Hwy. 25 can handle the volume of mail, that'll be our main Post Office. (And they have room to expand!)

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