The Brief
- Apollo Beach residents are circulating and signing a petition to keep their hometown mail facility open.
- When FOX 13 asked USPS why the facility was closing, the Postal Service said it determined that “nearby postal facilities are able to serve the community.”
- The facility is scheduled to close on September 30, 2025.
APOLLO BEACH, Fla. – Apollo Beach residents are hoping to keep their hometown mail facility from shutting down in September and they began circulating a petition to keep it open.
“This is a homey little hometown thing, and we have less and less of those things as the development occurs around us,” Traci Lovelace, who started the online version of the petition, told FOX 13. “So I’d like to keep the spirit of the community, and I’d like to not have to drive for half an hour to buy stamps or whatever.”
The petition is titled “Keep the Apollo Beach post office open!” …