How would this affect operations in the U.P.?
NEGAUNEE -- Friday at the Ishpeming Post Office, workers were preparing for a national "Passport Day in the USA."
However, Postmaster M. Patrick Frye states that passports may not be processed.
"If the government does shut down, we'll have to cancel that passport fair," Frye said. "We won't be able to accept passport applications."
Even with the government shutdown, Frye reassures that other normal postal operations will not be affected: mail will still be delivered and social security benefits will also still be processed.
At the U.S. Coast Guard in Marquette, it is the same story.
"Station Marquette provides search and rescue as our main mission, there will be no change in how we perform in our mission," Chief Brandon Liesen of the U.S. Coast Guard said. "We're stll funded to complete our mission, it's an operations normal environment for us, and we just focus on making sure that we can run the station from an operations standpoint."
Some of the local closures include Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and Keweenaw Historical Park.
However, the federal courts will remain in operation.
Frye says that during the last federal government shutdown of 1996, most local operations were mainly unaffected then.
And it seems that most, if not all, of the essential federal government services aren't affected this time around either.
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