As Erie resident Nick Pallotto continues his petition to reopen the South Erie Post Office on Poplar Street, more residents are joining the effort.<\/p>\n
“We’re at 310 signatures, and I want to thank everyone who has signed it,” Pallotto said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“As I am out talking with people, I have had eight individuals who have asked for a blank petition to get it filled out because we cannot accept what is going on,” he said.<\/p>\n
On July 29, we emailed the United States Postal Service (USPS) for an update on the South Erie Post Office.<\/p>\n
The following day, USPS responded:<\/p>\n
“The Postal Service is currently working on returning services to the South Erie Post Office, however a timeframe is yet to be determined.”<\/p>\n
We followed up by noting the post office initially closed for roof repairs and asking whether additional damage had been discovered.<\/p>\n
As of Tuesday night, we had not received a response.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Pallotto is scheduled to meet with Rep. Mike Kelly on August 12 and is also encouraging Erieites to show their support by holding signs and making their voices heard.<\/p>\n
Pallotto also shared with us some comments and possible solutions that residents have reacted with:<\/p>\n
Comments:<\/p>\n
\u201cReopen prior to Christmas 2026, return sorting machines to Erie, poor service, increase counter staff across all branches, lack of information and this is hurting business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Solutions:<\/p>\n
\u201cBuy the building, move to Liberty Plaza, agree to rent increase, agree to split the cost of repairs, renovate now, post factual information and rent one-year with Liberty Plaza while the Poplar Street location is being repaired as it would relieve current pressure and provide the community with service that has been lost and ensure our Christmas plea is answered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Erie resident Nick Pallotto continues his petition to reopen the South Erie Post Office on Poplar Street,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,296,139],"class_list":["post-259424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}