U.S. Postal Service officials confirmed on Tuesday they were dropping plans to sell the Half Moon Bay post office and relocate to a smaller branch. The branch on Stone Pine Road would remain open for business indefinitely, they said.

The decision reverses cost-saving plans made two years ago to put the large post office building on the market and downsize local mail service to a smaller building. Post office representatives say the idea failed because they could not find a buyer or a suitable new location to handle mail service in the area.

Half Moon Bay is the only postal building put up for sale in the Bay Area district to be subsequently taken off the market, said James Wigdel, U.S. Postal Service district spokesman. A new Half Moon Bay branch would have needed parking for more than a dozen mail trucks, a loading platform and at least 6,000 square feet of office space. Postal officials say they couldn’t find any building within the city that fit that bill.

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