{"id":411938,"date":"2026-07-25T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411938\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:14:27","slug":"the-community-really-needs-this-barrio-logan-post-office-set-to-close-concerning-residents-and-postal-workers-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411938\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The community really needs this\u2019: Barrio Logan post office set to close, concerning residents and postal workers \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ana Moya typically comes to the Barrio Logan post office twice a month to check her P.O. box for birthday cards and letters and mails big packages.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the most convenient post office for the 74-year-old Mount Hope resident \u2014 and now that it\u2019s closing, she\u2019s disappointed that she\u2019ll have to go to another. Many patrons are elderly, she said, and rely on it to stay connected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not happy with that,\u201d she said. \u201cThe community really needs this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post office at 2777 Logan Ave. in Barrio Logan is set to close August 7, as the U.S. Postal Service says its lease is expiring. Customers\u2019 service will be transferred to the Encanto post office, more than 4 miles away.<\/p>\n

The closure comes just weeks after Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Juan Vargas introduced legislation to change the location\u2019s name<\/a> to honor the late education leader Armando Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Postal worker union leaders say the closure is the latest in a string of closures of post offices around the country after their leases expire. They point out that on top of providing vital communications for communities, post offices also offer notary services and money orders, and deliver many thousands of ballots in elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are one of the few public entities. Most businesses are private,\u201d said Bob Waterhouse, the president of the San Diego Area Local 197 of the American Postal Workers Union. \u201cThe post office is one of those things that\u2019s in everybody\u2019s backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

USPS spokesperson John Hyatt said the Barrio Logan office is closing because its lease is up. \u201cThe Postal Service is searching for alternate quarters to continue retail services in the area,\u201d he said in a June press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The location\u2019s 38 employees will be transferred to work out of the Encanto post office, he added.<\/p>\n

\"AA postal worker walks into the post office in Barrio Logan on Friday, July 24, 2026. (Kristian Carreon \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n

In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2025, a total of 76 post offices, stations and branches closed nationwide, according to data from a USPS annual review.<\/p>\n

In the last six years, several post offices in San Diego County have been suspended<\/a>, including in Sorrento Valley, Carmel Valley<\/a> and University City. The Hillcrest post office is also scheduled to close next year. The post office says it is seeking other locations for them.<\/p>\n

These suspensions can grow into years-long closures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re calling it a temporary closure to keep everybody kind of somewhat happy,\u201d Waterhouse said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going to close this office down, you need to find another spot and open it up,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

With the Barrio Logan post office\u2019s closure, the legislation\u00a0to rename it is no longer necessary, said spokespersons for Padilla and Vargas. Both said that when they proposed the bill, they didn\u2019t know of the planned closure.<\/p>\n

Since 2009, the building has been named for the late labor leader Cesar Chavez, whose name is now being removed from positions of honor across California after the New York Times reported allegations that he sexually abused young girls for years.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez,\u00a0the post office\u2019s new would-be namesake, was born in 1921,\u00a0grew up in Logan Heights and served briefly as a principal in San Diego Unified School District before moving on to work for the state Department of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ana Moya typically comes to the Barrio Logan post office twice a month to check her P.O. box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,100,74,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-411938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}