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Center Line is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Metro Detroit , Center Line is located roughly 11 miles (17.7 km) north of downtown Detroit , and is completely surrounded by the larger city of Warren .
Between 1910 and 1920, Detroit's population more than doubled. By 1922, plans were in the works to construct a new post office facility. Originally conceived as a post office and office building, by 1923 the plan had evolved to become a parcel post station to be erected in the vicinity of Michigan Central Station.
The building served as Ann Arbor's main post office until 1959, when the post office on West Stadium Blvd took its place. It continued to serve as a branch post office until 1977, when the post office was moved to the new federal building on East Liberty Street. Washtenaw County then purchased the building. [4]
The term "post-office" [3] has been in use since the 1650s, [4] shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. [5] In early modern England, post riders—mounted couriers—were placed, or "posted", [6] every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or "post towns".
The Lincoln Park Post Office was dedicated on August 5, 1939, serving as a branch of the Detroit Post Office. [3] Lincoln Park Post Office began operating as an independent post office in 1954. [2] However, the Postal Service's Lincoln Park operations eventually outgrew the size of the building. The Post Office left the building in 1991.
On November 14, 1991, a mass shooting occurred at the United States Post Office in Royal Oak, Michigan, United States. In the incident, a disgruntled former postal worker, identified as 31-year-old Thomas McIlvane, shot and killed four post office employees before committing suicide.
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