http://kbia.org en http://kbia.org/post/rural-post-offices-close-hartsburg-residents-highlight-pos-role <p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hartsburg is home to one of the 13,000 rural post offices across the country that are reducing business hours in response to a major drop in revenue for the United States Postal Service.</p><p> Thirty Hartsburg residents met Wednesday to review the decision to keep the town’s post office open for only four hours on weekdays.</p><p> To the Hartsburg residents who gathered to discuss the future of the town’s postal service, the post office provides more than their mail—it gives the town an identity.</p> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:26:47 +0000 Katarina Sostaric 25289 at http://kbia.org As rural post offices close, Hartsburg residents highlight the PO's role