City strikes deal to keep library post office open, but loses most of its revenue

For weeks, a sign on the post office counter warned of its impending closure inside the Maricopa Library and Cultural Center. With fewer than 48 hours before services were scheduled to stop, the city struck a deal to keep it open — by giving up as much as $40,000 in annual revenue sharing.

Maricopa leaders and the U.S. Postal Service agreed this morning to avoid the Friday shutdown.

The post office, which opened in 2021 to relieve long lines at the city’s only full-service post office on Hathaway Avenue, was first marked for closure in mid-August when USPS notified the city its existing contract would not be renewed. At that time, officials said they had exhausted efforts to reverse the decision, even enlisting help from Arizona’s congressional delegation.

But just days before the de