PHOTO GALLERY: Hartsburg post office reduces hours

November 25, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CST

The U.S. Postal Service plans to reduce daily post office hours at Hartsburg to four hours daily, plus the regular window hours on Saturdays.

Mail carrier Kevin Scott rolls a mail cart back into the Hartsburg post office on Nov. 13. His route is 58 miles long and includes more than 380 homes. | Benjamin Hoste

Mail carrier Kevin Scott's Chevy pickup is parked behind the Hartsburg post office as he sorts mail for his route Nov. 13. Rural mail carriers use their own vehicles to deliver the mail and must steer while sitting in the passenger seat so they can reach mailboxes on the side of the road. | Benjamin Hoste

Sorted mail waits to be delivered Nov. 13 at the Hartsburg post office. The U.S. Postal Service plans to reduce the daily hours at the post office. | Benjamin Hoste

Postmaster Charles Roach talks with Hartsburg resident Jo Hackman as she picks up her mail Nov. 13 at the Hartsburg post office. Hackman works as needed as the Postmaster Relief and fills in for Roach on his days off. | Benjamin Hoste

The Hartsburg post office sits where the original, two-story post office used to sit before being destroyed in a 1993 flood that brought water more than 3-feet deep into downtown Hartsburg. | Benjamin Hoste