Retail Post Office operations, Post Office boxes and passport services presently offered at the large U.S. Postal Service facility on Redondo Avenue in Long Beach will soon be relocated to a nearby site.

The existing facility at 2300 Redondo Ave. had served as a regional mail processing center. The Postal Service announced plans to close the Redondo Avenue site six years ago.

Services that have continued to be offered at the Redondo Avenue site are scheduled to be provided as of March 5 at the Postal Service’s Signal Hill Station, 2371 Grand Ave., according to a Postal Service announcement. The Signal Hill Station is within Long Beach city limits, a short distance to the northeast of the Redondo Avenue office.

P.O. Box customers can pick up mail at Signal Hill Station as of 6 a.m. March 5. Weekday hours are scheduled to be from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Retail services will not be offered on weekends, although the P.O. Box lobby will be accessible from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

The deadline for anyone to retrieve mail from the Redondo Avenue facility is noon on Friday, March 2.

Members of Long Beach’s Planning Commission voted earlier this month to support developer Pacific Industrial’s plans to tear down the Redondo Avenue postal facility and to build three new industrial buildings in its place. Those plans still require approval from the City Council.