It’s official: D.C.’s Ward 1 is getting to keep a post office branch in its U Street Corridor.
The U.S. Postal Service lost $3 billion in the first quarter of the 2012 fiscal year and has threatened to close thousands of locations — including one at 1915 14th St. Northwest.
But postal official relented and simply decided to move the office to a new location a block away.
The new office will be in the city’s Reeves Center, an aide to Ward 1 Councilman Jim Graham said Thursday. The new post office, which will be located at 2000 14th St., will be on the building’s ground floor.
“We have known that USPS decided to attempt to keep the post office in the area. But its new location was subject to site and lease negotiations,” Graham said in a statement. “Today, the lease with the D.C. government and USPS is fully executed, which is fantastic.”
