US Post Office

This is the best Post Office in Oregon
The staff is friendly, personable, and knowledgeable. There are a lot of regular customers that they know by face and packages, like the one who brings live pets to send.
The hours are:
Monday to Friday 8:30am to 10pm
Saturday 9:30am to 9:00pm
Sunday 11:00am to 9:00pm

Needed a passport. Called the appt line. got an appt for the next day. I was the first appt of th day on a Tuesday I think and things got pretty busy in the passpost line after me. The woman I worked with was helpful, but not terribly warm. The place was empty when I arrived. Works for me.

More reason to give this place just two stars.
You do know that the Airport Post Office, practically adjacent to PDX, is the «other» post office in town where to get that day’s postmark later in the day and get your mail moving, right? That pick up time is 8:30 pm. That’s because that last inflow of mail is then transported to the main Post Office downtown, where their last pick up time is at 9:00 pm.
So, I went to this post office and pulled through the driveway with the outside mailboxes. I read the placard. Unbelievable! The last pick-​up using the outside mailboxes was at 5:30 pm. I went inside the lobby. To qualify for the last pick-​up at 8:30 pm, you either need to use the mail slots inside the lobby or see a clerk.
At the downtown Post Office, whether posting an item inside the lobby or at the outside mailboxes, the last pick-​up time is 9:00 pm for both. Not only that, the mailboxes are further away from the building itself at the downtown location than they are at the airport location.
Take heed of this 3 hour discrepancy depending on where you insert your letter at the Airport Post Office. I see no reason for it. And it’s absurd.

This is my go-​to post office. Three of my favorite postal employees work there: Marilyn, James, and Barbara. They’re all fantastic, genuine, and like helping people. They are knowledgeable, helpful, and happy to talk. And they do a pretty decent job staying level and friendly even in the face of occasional jerky customers. Yes, during certain hours, the lines can be long. But just do your best to go during the less busy hours and you’ll be fine.

This post office is conveniently located to my office, so I usually come here when I need to send out a package. The lines are hit or miss… during the week I’ve noticed longer waits between 12−2pm. But it’s a post office and most P. O’s have lines regardless. Parking is a little wonky if it’s busy too.
But I really have no complaints and I prefer coming to this location.

Pros: Great hours, convenient location, and my mail got home quick.
Cons: got there around 4 pm. No line and only one window open. Open without a clerk. Clerk was busy in back by the doorway talking. Looked at me and continued to talk a few minutes. I could excuse him if he acknowledged me and said will be right there. But no he didn’t just kept talking. When he did finally help me he said my 3 boxes where addressed wrong. I said sir I have addressed all my mail to this PO box for 15 years and just recently sent 5 boxes with no problem from another US Postal office. He said nope no such address, u must be missing mail. I said nope not one piece unless u guys lose it have never lost mail due to incorrectly addressing it. Continued to argue with me and finally accepted it and guess what boxes arrived to the address before I did since I was on vacation.

First of all, when you drop here, it does not go direct to the air[plane, so the guy that wrote that, does not know what he is talking about. Its is open late and has the latest collection, however, it goes from here to the Hoyt street downtown post office, where it is then sorted and then sent out. So if you want to knock delivery time off, drop off at the Hoyt street station.
But as Rod Stewart said: «A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse» so although it seems logical that mail might go directly to the plane from here, it is not so. Many other cities, the airport post office is often the best choice for fastest delivery times; Honolulu for example, operates that way.

The hours are great, no doubt about that. And I’m sure that out-​of-​state mail gets on its way faster because it’s already at the airport, so for those reasons I love this location. The folks behind the counter have always been terrific to me. Yes, the line moves slowly, but when you’re at the counter, they take all the time in the world to help you, so it’s worth it.
But.
If you need supplies, like Priority Mail boxes, you are out of luck unless you want Flat Rate boxes. They have those out for you to grab, but they don’t have just the regular by-​weight Priority Mail boxes. Not even behind the counter. Why not?! I mean, I get that there isn’t much room to put out a ton of supplies in the customer area, but to not even have them in the back, upon request, doesn’t make sense to me.
To their credit, when I needed a box for my item and I didn’t want to pay Flat Rate, they did rummage up a plain brown box up for me from the back. That was very kind and definitely beyond the normal duty.

This is the only 24 hour Post Office I’m aware of in town. Unfortunately, they no longer have a postal worker there ²⁴⁄₇ instead it’s an automated machine. And after driving all the way out to Airport Way to get my mail postmarked for ²⁄₁₄ I found out that the automated machine is out of service. Luckily I don’t need my application postmarked until 2/​15, but just a warning for all my fellow procrastinators: make sure you get here before 10PM.
I still think this post office deserves 3 stars because in every other aspect they’re awesome. However, it’s kind of misleading to still have the 24-​hour neon sign still lit up if the sole 24 hour machine is broken.

Note. This location no longer processes passports on weekends, nor do they accept reservations. This is not up to date on the USPS site as of 2÷14÷13.

First, the clerks were very helpful… helped with an international mailing for us… but the line was simply a hoot. Two gals rolled up with two large dollies, each piled high with boxes to post. Only two clerks. A postal clerk informed them that this time of year they needed to make an appointment to mail so many things to be fair to all the others in line. Of course, this infuriated the gals but made all the others behind them most happy. The rude cart ladies provided entertainment as the clerk tried to explain that by calling ahead their needs and that of everyone else who had parcels to post could be met. I must say that the clerk was diplomatic, fair, and non-​budging. And our clerk (the other one) provided quick, efficient, helpful service.

Open 7am-​9pm! ²⁴⁄₇ automated ship machines too

This is the best post office in Portland. Open LATE and on weekends, again LATE. If you need to mail something and its not 9 – 5, head up here and get it done quickly.
I’ll give you the biggest tip of all, if you mail something here you will cut 1 day off the delivery time. Why? Because it goes from here to the airplane. No bouncing around the city of Portland when it really needs to be in Chicago.

For the times that i have went into this location i was able to get in and get out very quickly.

1) OPEN till 10p on weekdays
2) The line MOVES FAST, so don’t be discouraged
3) Odd but friendly staff
really its worth the drive, give it a try

This PO is a good place to go on April 15^th to mail out taxes. When I want a priority package to go out fast I send it from here. It is worth the drive to save ½ a day. They process it here and put it on the next available plane.

This post office stays open until 10 at night. For those days when you have a tax form, grad school application, or parcel full of coffee and newspaper clippings in your hot little hands and couldn’t quite make it to any place of post before 5, you just need to jam it towards PDX. But it’s worth it when that thing, whatever it is, is collected by the mostly good-​humored person in the blue shirt on the other side of the counter and becomes No Longer Your Responsibility. Isn’t it liberating when things are No Longer Your Responsibility? Take a deep breath. Aw yeah, that’s it.
If only this post office was more of a secret. It would be nice if the out-​of-​the-​way location relieved the post office of its most volatile factors, meaning other customers. But chances are, even as most people are watching TV in bed for the night, you’ll still encounter a bit of a wait. Case in point: A person with a thousand parcels and media mail items all being sent to various cities and townships heard one USPS worker say, «You can go up to whoever is free next,» and exclaimed in reply, regarding the postal employee whom she was being helped by, «It’s not going to be her!» In any of the other post office locations, this person would probably need to ask a few friends to walk her to her car after sending off her stuff. Some postal customers carry lead pipes is all I’m saying. But at the airport post office, this kind of a personality runs rampant. Be wary.