AUSTIN — The downtown Austin post office at 5th Street and Guadalupe is closing. The office will move to a new facility after an Austin-based company and an Atlanta, Georgia developer bought the property last December. The new post office will be located on Congress Avenue near 9th Street. It will open …
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