Corte Madera’s Town Manager Adam Wolff is reassuring residents that rumors of the death of the Post Office on Pixley Avenue have been greatly exaggerated.

In a recent update on the town’s website, Wolff said that the U.S. Postal Service “has no plans to eliminate postal services in our Town, despite what USPS employees may be saying.”

Wolff said he confirmed the information with U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, and the USPS district director.

Though the post office located at 7 Pixley Ave. does not appear to be closing, Wolff said that USPS is considering moving back-of-office operations elsewhere, such as trucking, mail sorting and distribution. Public counter service, post office boxes, retail sales and other front-of-office functions would remain, Wolff said.

Rumors of the potential closure of the Corte Madera Post Office have been circulating for months, including this Sept. 23 blog post on the Save the Post Office website. (Image via savethepostoffice.com)

Residents have complained about the noise emitting from the operations center of the Pixley Avenue post office for two decades, according to Wolff, and he said noise has been increasing as truck deliveries come in late at night.

“I continue to work closely with Congressman Huffman’s office and our Town Council to try and secure reliable and timely communications from USPS management so that rumors spread by USPS employees at the Pixley Post Office do not continue to mislead our community,” Wolff said in a newsletter to residents.

Wolff has been staving off rumors of the post office closing for weeks after inklings of a possible closure spread over social media. The website Save The Post Office, which is a page run by a New York man who wants to preserve the institutions, also had a headline in September reading “Post Office in Corte Madera, CA, to close.”

Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.