Photo by Maryland Route 5.

The United States Postal Service has been looking for ways to cut back on costs for, well, years now. But one of the biggest drains on USPS’ yearly budget is their brick-and-mortar postal offices, which, with massive cuts in labor and a movement to online services, are often understaffed and underutilized. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that the USPS was looking to move on closing thousands of offices — and Prince of Petworth publishes an email from a reader who overheard that the post office at 14th and T Streets would be “closing in a few months.”

Actually, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Mid City location, as it is known officially, was the only D.C. location which the Postal Service said that it planned to close by the end of 2010. (Of course, we’re now nearly four weeks into 2011, and the post office is still operational.) But with USPS targeting another 2,000 offices for closure soon, we can’t help but imagine there’s going to be at least one, if not more, closures coming to D.C. — and that the fate of the Mid City office is pretty much sealed.

Of course, this isn’t necessarily a terrible thing; while the idea of having a post office nearby is one of those things that makes you feel like you’re living in a real neighborhood, there are lots of post offices in D.C. — and one could argue that brick-and-mortar offices have become an outdated usage of space, especially in such high-demand areas like the 14th Street corridor. Then again, every time that yours truly visits this location, the line is quite long, so there are obviously still people who use it.

Those who live near the Mid City post office — will you mourn it if and when it goes, or will you hardly bat an eye?