Velis, a Westfield Democrat, said he first found Post 124 in 2013, when he returned from his first deployment to Afghanistan. “Post 124 has a very special place in the hearts of people,” he said.

U.S. Postal Service representatives say the decision to stop picking up packages from Westfield Hallmark and Floral is based on security measures. In an article that ran in the Dec. 23 edition of ...