Sun Prairie Post Office

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Counter service: Mon - Friday: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Counter service: Sat: 9:30 am to 3 pm starting 12/26/09
Do-it-yourself Automated Postal Center open at 8 am weekdays.
If it is not too complicated, maybe you can handle it.
A postal employee will be in the Automated Postal Center to assist from 8 - 9 am.
Pickup from Drive-up Drop Box in front:
M-F: 8 am, 2:30 pm, 5:15 pm
(6 pm inside drop)

1715 Linnerud Drive
Sun Prairie, WI 53590
Phone: (608) 834-0952
TTY service: 1-877-877-7833

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1/4/16

I got one of those cards in the mail, Saturday, where they couldn't deliver because they needed a signature. I didn't realize that I had to do anything because the card said "We Re Deliver for you." Should have read it more closely. They did not redeliver for me. I had to tell them to redeliver for me.

I called and asked the Sun Prairie PO and the guy told me it has "always been that way". I must have been getting extra services from my delivery guy all those years. Never had to ask for a package to be re-delivered when a signature was needed. I told him that UPS and FedEx tries three times to make a delivery and I don't have to ask them.

The trouble is, UPS is using the USPS to make some of their deliveries now. Maybe they should take the "S" off their acronyms?

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/calendar/federalholidays.htm

Passports:

Facility Name:	Sun Prairie Post Office	Postal
Facility Address:	1715 Linnerud Drive Sun Prairie, WI 53590	(608) 834-1662

Customer Conveniences

Handicap Access:

Yes

Hours of Passport Acceptance

	Open	Lunch Start	Lunch End	Closed
MONDAY	10:00AM	N/A	N/A	3:30PM
TUESDAY	10:00AM	N/A	N/A	3:30PM
WEDNESDAY	10:00AM	N/A	N/A	3:30PM
THURSDAY	10:00AM	N/A	N/A	3:30PM
FRIDAY	10:00AM	N/A	N/A	3:30PM
Comments:	BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.

In 1896, the U.S. Post Office Department began rural free delivery in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Ioway, and West Virginia on an experimental basis. On November 16th, Sun Prairie became the first community in Wisconsin to initiate rural free delivery with four routes. Each carrier rode twenty to thirty miles daily delivering mail in an area of sixty square miles. They did it for a salary of twenty-five dollars a month. The first appointed carriers included Charles Woerpel, James Dunphy, Charles Phillips and William Evans. William Mosel was the Sun Prairie Postmaster at this time.

Village merchants initially opposed free delivery, fearing the loss of business if farmers did not come to town for to pickup and drop off their mail. After a month's trial, satisfied farmsers announced that they would carry on the service themselves if the Postal Service chose to discontinue it. Rural free delivery continued and became a permanent service.

House to house delivery in the village did not begin until 1950.

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Question:
How much is the US postage stamp with US Flag and "USA First-Class" written on the bottom worth? Possibly 2007?

Answer:
First-class stamps in 2007 were worth 41 cents.

The real question here is: Why in the world would they create a stamp with no postage amount on it so that nobody, in the future, would know just how much they are worth?

Perhaps they thought that it would always stay that way and these would be like the new Forever Stamps. Then again, perhaps it is just your government at work. Can't wait for government run health care?

First Class Postage Rates	Per Ounce
7/1/1885	2¢
11/3/1917	3¢
7/1/1919	2¢
7/6/1932	3¢
8/1/1958	4¢
1/7/1963	5¢
1/7/1968	6¢
5/16/1971	8¢
3/2/1974	10¢
12/31/1975	13¢
5/29/1978	15¢
3/22/1981	18¢
11/1/1981	20¢
2/17/1985	22¢
4/3/1988	25¢
2/3/1991	29¢
1/1/1995	32¢
1/10/1999	33¢
1/7/2001	34¢
7/1/2001	34¢
6/30/2002	37¢
1/8/2006	39¢
5/14/2007	41¢
5/12/2008	42¢
5/11/2009	44¢
1/27/2013	46¢
1/26/2014	49¢