PISEK (AP) - The post office in the small northeastern North Dakota town of Pisek is closing.

The same fate awaits the post office in the northwestern Minnesota community of Halma.

Gloria Hauge, a regional manager with the U.S. Postal Service, says operations in the two towns will be suspended and the post offices eventually shut down because there aren't qualified employees to run the facilities.

Halma Mayor Shane Olson says losing the post office is like losing the town's identity.