The Arnold Post Office will turn off the lights at its current location for good at the end of the month, and renovations will begin soon at a building across Jeffco Boulevard in the Water Tower shopping plaza where the Post Office will relocate, U.S. Postal officials have reported.
“We are in the process of completing the design and will begin construction later this spring,” said Mark Inglett, a U.S. Postal Service strategic communications specialist.
The Postal Service’s lease for the Arnold Post Office’s current location at 1314 Jeffco Blvd. expires on Wednesday, Jan. 31, and the agency has signed a lease to move the Arnold Post Office into a building at 2184 Michigan Ave. that previously housed a Here Today store, Inglett said.
Renovations must be completed before the Post Office move into that space, though.
“The delivery of mail and packages to our customers will not be affected during this transition,” Inglett said. “Arnold is a very important community to the Postal Service. Our goal was to have our new facility nearby and to continue providing the same level of exceptional service to our customers.”
Inglett said the Postal Service is working with the building’s landlord to set up a mobile postal unit – a trailer – where postal retail transactions, caller services and PO Box mail will be available. The Postal Service will have collection box units available for PO Box customers, and keys will be made available at the trailer, according to a notice posted at the current Post Office.
He also said a blue collection box will be set up at the site.
The mobile postal unit will be open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. To contact the mobile unit, call 314-846-4152.
A postcard was sent to city residents in June 2022 about a proposal to relocate the office within 2 miles of the existing office.
The postcard said the Postal Service was looking to lease a 10,600-square-foot building that had more than 81 parking spots. The memo also said the Postal Service would consider using 85,000 square feet of land to construct a new office on or splitting its operations with the retail portion of the office moving into a 3,200-square foot building that has more than 21 parking spots and the operations portion moving into an 8,200-square-foot building with more than 61 parking spots.