Residents in the Fayette County town of Arlington received a notice on Friday, April 22, 2011, noting the closure of their post office was imminent. A meeting was held the following Monday at the local Lutheran Church, and the office was shuttered the following Wednesday. The Des Moines Register writer Kyle Munson chronicled the closure which was classified by the postal service as an emergency suspension. The office was one of over 30 closed in Iowa in 2011.