USPS gives Larose residents a vote on future post office

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Larose’s longstanding push to have its residential and business mail delivery routed through the Larose Post Office could finally be coming to an end.

The population of the town in southern Lafourche Parish has grown to over 7,000 people, but it has always received mail out of neighboring towns’ post offices because the Larose Post Office does not offer delivery route service.


The U.S. Postal Service will mail ballots last week to the 2,200 residences in Larose having boxes, asking residents to approve changing their zip code to Larose’s code.


The 1,300 post office boxes at the Larose Post Office will receive ballots this week as well.

The change would allow residents to receive mail through the Larose Post Office.


Half of the 2,200 addresses in Larose get mail from Lockport. The other half is routed out of the Cut Off Post Office.


Residents and business owners have until Oct .15 to mail back the ballot envelopes, which will include a return envelope but no return postage.

To approve the zip code change, half of the ballots (plus one) need to be returned to the U.S. Postal Service approving the change.

The citizens of Larose have endured delivery delays when mail, mistakenly labeled with the town’s address, had to be rerouted to another post office.

Residents travel to neighboring post offices to pick up certified mail and packages.

Also, citizens have had to explain to delivery services, credit card companies and online ordering companies that – though they live in Larose – they use another town’s mailing address, a number of residents have complained.

Sightseers surfing the Internet have experienced a hard time as well.

“Tourists often can’t find the well-known Larose French Food Festival because Larose does not exist in any physical address on Web site maps,” said Larose resident Henri Boulet.

“We are forced to explain that the Larose Civic Center and the Larose French Food Festival are, according to the postal service, located on 5th Street in Cut Off,” he said. “It’s a time-consuming, frustrating situation.”