After 3 years without a West Paris post office, USPS signs lease for new site
The U.S. Postal Service has signed a lease to reopen the post office in the Oxford County town of West Paris, at the site of the former Ledgeview Living Center on 141 Bethel Road.
“With this lease signed, residents and small businesses should feel some certainty that now it’s a question of when — not if — their local branch will reopen,” said U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine 2nd District.
The USPS closed the former post office, at 238 Main St., three years ago. Golden, joined by postal workers and customers, said he urged USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to assure a new site would be secured and to provide updates about the process.
“We would like to thank Rep. Jared Golden and his staff for their persistence with getting our U.S. Post Office back in West Paris,” said Joy Downing, West Paris’s town manager.
In 2021, USPS said it was closing the West Paris facility while the agency negotiated a new lease for the property.
USPS hasn’t announced an official reopening date for the new 141 Bethel Road site.
The nearest post office is seven miles away in South Paris, according to a news release.
West Paris is on Route 26 in the foothills of Western Maine. It has a population of 1,766, according to the 2020 census.
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