Eighteen post offices in the city have been saved from the chopping block.

The U.S. Postal Service says 11 post offices in Brooklyn, five in the Bronx, and two in Manhattan will not be closed or consolidated as originally planned.

Meanwhile, USPS is warning it will lose as much as $18.2 billion a year if Congress does not give it the leeway to eliminate Saturday mail delivery and make other service cuts.

That includes closing up to 252 mail-processing centers, 3,700 local post offices, and slowing delivery of first-class mail.

The postmaster general says this would allow the agency to save $20 billion a year.

(Source: NY1)