Birmingham Post Office

The Birmingham Post Office is a regional facility of the United States Postal Service which operates 26 individual post office locations in Jefferson County (all with ZIP codes beginning with 352). The enterprise is overseen by the Postmaster of Birmingham and currently employes 850 workers and handles 250,000 daily deliveries. The main downtown post office is located at 351 24th Street North.

Birmingham's post office was established on September 5, 1871, before the city was officially incorporated. The first post office . A new Birmingham Post Office and Customs House was erected on the southwest corner of 2nd Avenue North and 18th Street in 1893. After four decade it was considered an impediment to progress and demolished. A grand new Birmingham Post Office and Federal Court was then built on the 1800 block of 5th Avenue North. The post office moved to a new $12 million modern sorting facility on 24th Street North in the early 1970s. The 1921 building is now the Robert Smith Vance Federal Courthouse Building.

References

• Kent, Dawn (October 23, 2009) "Postmaster adds his stamp to city history." Birmingham News