The U.S. Postal Service branch on campus, temporarily located behind the Faculty Club, is on a list of 413 offices that may have to close this year because of a federal budget crunch.Jason Tolliver, director of University Auxiliary Services, said even if the branch is shut down, students, faculty and staff will still have a place to drop off and pick up their mail on campus.  “A lot of people thought that all mailing services were going to be gone from campus [if the Postal Service branch closed], and that’s not the case,” he said. While the closures are pending, Tolliver said the University is working on finding a back-up mailing service to replace the U.S. Postal Service, a federal agency. He said private mailing companies like UPS and other local entities are talking with the University. Tolliver said he wants to have a formal request ready by spring in case the branch has to close. He said if it closes, the only thing that will change about the University’s mailing service will be the logo on employees’s name tags. “Everybody will still have their mailboxes,” Tolliver said. A sharp decline in mail volume caused by the recession and the movement from traditional mail to the Internet has postal officials saying the agency could have a deficit as large as $7 billion this year, according to the Associated Press.The U.S. Postal Service told the Associated Press on Thursday it plans to shut down a southern New Jersey distribution center in February, possibly putting 650 people out of work.The U.S. Postal Service currently has about 37,000 retail outlets.Tolliver said the University post office has about 6,000 mailboxes available, but only about half of those are rented. The University’s mailing   service will move back to its usual spot in the LSU Student Union when construction is finished on the building. —-Contact Kyle Bove at [email protected]