United States Postal Service closes Virginia historical post office over exhibit.

The Postal Service said that it closed a small, historic Virginia post office located in the same building as a museum about racial, segregation earlier this summer due to concerns about the museum’s historical display.

In June, the Postal Service suspended operations at a small post office in Montpelier Station Post Office, which is located inside a restored train depot owned by a nonprofit foundation that manages former president James Madison’s Montpelier estate. The museum has two exterior doors with historical signs labeling one “white” and the other “colored.”

“Postal Service management considered that some customers may associate the racially-based, segregated entrances with the current operations of the Post Office and thereby draw negative associations between those operations and the painful legacy of discrimination and segregation,” Philip Bogenberger, a spokesperson for the Postal Service, said in a statement to USA TODAY Thursday.

In June, the Postal Service suspended operations at a small post office in Montpelier Station Post Office, which is located inside a restored train…