MONROE — Monroe residents will pick up postal packages at a new location starting Tuesday.

The site on Dickerson Boulevard will be open to those with a 28110 or 28112 ZIP code who receive mail at home. Post office box renters will still pick their packages up at the current site at 101 S. Charlotte Ave.

Postmaster Dale Apple said the two ZIP codes cover about 35,000 delivery sites.

“If you get one of those little pink slips and it’s for a street address, then you would pick up the package (on Dickerson Boulevard),” post office supervisor Lora Murphy said.

Union County’s recent growth has caught up with the post office and “we have outgrown our current facility,” Apple said.

“We can’t house all the carriers and postal equipment necessary for processing and distribution,” he said.

The new location has been in the works for the past few years, Murphy said, and will offer more space for carriers to sort mail. Carriers currently do their work in one of two trailers attached to the post office on South Charlotte Avenue.

The additional site, called the Monroe carrier annex, will house 50 carriers, as well as four automated letter-sorting machines and manual distribution cases. Monroe residents receive thousands of packages a week, Apple said, most of them delivered by carriers. About 25 packages are held at the post office for pickup each day.

Those from the two ZIP code areas who want to stop delivery of their mail for a period of time will also have to do that the carrier annex. Stamp purchases and other customer services will still be handled at the South Charlotte Avenue location. The new location will not offer those services. The two sites are less than two miles from each other.

Apple said the transition “should be seamless. (Customers) shouldn’t be able to tell any difference, other than where they pick up their packages.”

The carrier annex is at 1639 Dickerson Blvd. behind Tire Warehouse. It will have the same hours as the current location — from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday. For more information, call 704-283-2565 or 704-289-4508.