Postal drop box planned for growing Missouri City

Plans for a new post office dropbox location in Missouri City are in the works.

Missouri City has one full-service post office at 1902 Texas Parkway. A mail-distribution facility run by the United States Postal Service on Glenn Lakes Lane does not offer any additional services. It’s not possible to buy stamps, mail a package or drop off mail at the Glenn Lakes location.

That may change in 2017. While the Glenn Lakes facility will still continue its current function, city officials are working with the postal service to add a mail drop box and driveway to provide additional service for a growing part of the city.

Glenn Lakes Lane is near Riverstone and Sienna Plantation, both large, growing developments.

Discussion has centered on placing the box and driveway on postal service property on Glenn Lakes Lane or perhaps on the shopping center property across the road. The city has committed

up to $26,000 to the project and in a recent meeting authorized City Manager-Anthony Snipes to continue working with the postal service.

“It should be the post office’s responsibility to serve a growing city,” City Councilman Anthony Maroulis said during a recent council special session when the drop-box project issue was raised. “We should push them to grow with us.”

There are no plans to build a second post office in Missouri City or remodel the city’s current post office, said McKinney Boyd, communications programs specialist for the postal service. But Boyd confirmed there will be a new mail drop box.

The project is expected to be completed in 2017, Boyd said. A more specific timeline will be provided to the city when the postal service’s budget for fiscal year 2017 is approved, Boyd said. In rapidly growing cities, the postal service partners with local businesses to offer additional services.

Missouri City Allen Owen said that Missouri City needs more postal services.

“They should be thinking about plans to put a post office in (Sienna Plantation) and take advantage of the growth over there,” said Mayor Allen Owen.

Missouri City Council member Jerry Wyatt said he could buy stamps at Kroger or a number of other businesses.

“Any kind of convenience will help,” Wyatt said. “I don’t think that will hurt a thing.”