It was a bit over a year ago that McHenry County Blog broke the story that the Cary Post Office was up for sale.

Deliveries would originate in the Crystal Lake Post Office, although there would be a store front in Cary somewhere.

It’s been a bad year for real estate and the Postal System has decided to take the property off the market for the time being.

The system is in the midst of a massive downsizing.

There are 35,000 post offices now.

Ten years from now, the plan is for there to be less than half as many–about 16,000.