The Demo Site

A petition drive to keep a downtown post office in Plant City, Florida is seeing some success. The backers of the petition had hoped to get 1,000 signatures and ended up with over 3,500.

The Plant City Chamber of Commerce was taken aback when the U.S. Postal Service offered to sell the city the post office or the a joining lot. As the Postal Service continues to try to cut costs, the citizens of Plant city took up a petition to keep the station open.

A spokeswoman for the Postal Service stated that no immediate plans where in place to close the station as they continued to study the issue.

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