West Side post office won’t be shut down

YOUNGSTOWN — The U.S. Postal Service has removed the West Side post office, 2030 Mahoning Ave., from its potential closing list, a USPS spokesman in Cleveland announced this morning.

“As we started looking at it a little bit closer, we just didn’t see the efficiencies we thought we could get,” by closing that post office, said the spokesman, Victor Dubina.

Postal officials determined that there were no significant opportunities to improve efficiencies in retail operations by closing the West Side post office, according to Youngstown Postmaster Veronica Rice.

Today’s announcement still leaves the East Side post office, 733 N. Garland Ave., and the South Side post office, 104 W. Hylda Ave., on the potential closing list.

That’s because postal officials studying ways to save money and improve operating efficiencies are “not as far along” in their studies of the East Side and South Side operations, Dubina said. Postal officials will announce final decisions on the fate of those post offices after Oct. 1.

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