Carversville residents can rejoice, as the tiny post office in the historic Bucks County village in Solebury Township will not be closing, writes JD Mullane for the Bucks County Courier Times.

According to an unidentified source, the post office, housed in a former carriage shed on Fleecydale Road, received notice shortly after New Year’s stating it would close this winter.

“The first anyone heard about it was that (the post office) would close at the end of January, beginning of February, because they needed a signed lease,” said the source. “People were upset.”

If the post office closed, residents would have to go to Point Pleasant four and a half miles away.

“Some (in Carversville) have been getting mail here 50 years,” added the source. “They’d have to change their address.”

The U.S. Postal Service was planning to leave if it failed to secure a new lease. But now, it seems a deal has been reached with a five year agreement in place.

“It’s kind of special for people today to still have to come to the post office to collect their mail, so there’s a waiting list to get a post office box,” said the source.

Read more about how the Carversville post office was saved in the Bucks County Courier Times.

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