The United States Postal Service has announced that services offered at 2300 Redondo Ave. will be moved to 2371 Grand Ave. (pictured) beginning March 5. Although the existing building will be used, services will be consolidated and conducted from a different portion of it.
However, despite its name, the new post office is actually not in Signal Hill— like the current one, it will be located in Long Beach. The newly constructed post office will be located on the same property as the Redondo Avenue office, but customers will access it from Grand Avenue rather than Redondo.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Evelina Ramirez, a spokesperson for USPS, clarified the logistics of the relocation.
“Actually, the move is happening within the same facility,” Ramirez said. “We just moved it from one end of the huge building to the other end. We just kind of moved operations because we don’t use the entire building anymore. So, rather than have everything spread apart, we basically consolidated everything and put it in one corner of the facility.”
Ramirez said much of the facility has been underutilized, so the USPS is attempting to make better use of the property. She added that the USPS will likely lease out the portions of the facility not being used.
She said the new post office will be about 24,000 square feet and that the availability of parking spaces should be about the same as it has been at the existing office on Redondo Avenue.
The new site will offer the same retail, post-office box services, carrier-delivery operations and passport center the existing location does.
“All of the services that were available previously are going to be the same,” Ramirez said. “Everything that was offered before— [such as] passport services— everything is going to be available in that new location.”
Customers who have post-office boxes can also expect their experiences to be the same.
“The P.O. boxes are going to be moved,” she said. “No change to address, no change to keys, nothing.”
P.O. box customers will have until noon Friday, March 16 to retrieve mail from the current location because the office will be closed and inaccessible to customers after that time.
However, beginning Monday, March 19 at 6am, customers will be able to pick up mail at the new location.
“We need that Saturday and Sunday to make sure everything is in place,” Ramirez explained.
Ramirez said that she had initially wondered why a post office in Long Beach had been given a Signal Hill name but that the moniker refers to the area served.
“It’s because the delivery unit that is housed in that facility services Signal Hill,” she explained. “That’s why they chose to call it Signal Hill [Station].”
Business hours at the Signal Hill Station will be Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 5pm. The office will be closed Saturdays and Sundays, but the post-office-box lobby will be open Monday through Saturday from 6am to 7pm and closed on Sundays.
