The Postal Service has announced plans to close and sell another historic post office. The College Station post office on 140th Street in in Harlem was built under the New Deal, and it’s been serving the neighborhood since 1937. It looks like 2014 may be its last year of operation. As usual, the Postal Service says it plans to open a … Read More
GSA auction of Yankton, SD post office closes
The Internet auction for the former downtown Yankton Post Office has closed. According to the General Services Administration (GSA) auction page, bidding ended at 10 a.m. Wednesday with a high bid of $206,000. The Postal Service will now take time to evaluate the bid before accepting it. (When the building was initially listed on the USPS-CBRE website, the asking price … Read More
LA Times: Berkeley making the rounds to save its historic post office
LA Times: "Plenty of communities have resisted the U.S. Postal Service's sweeping real estate sell-off, battling to keep open historic buildings that speak of bygone civic grandeur and to guarantee old-fashioned mail service for the public. Few have succeeded. But this is Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement and protracted protests over civil rights, Vietnam and more. So when the … Read More
Post office closing irks customers in Danville VA
Customers at the Main Street post office in Danville, Virginia, were stunned Monday when they arrived to find a letter taped to the front doors telling them all services were suspended due to a failed safety and health inspection. The problem? Old lead paint in some back rooms. Cathy Yarosky, spokesperson for the United States Postal Service, said there are no … Read More
The Washington Post asks, Why not the Amazon Postal Service?
The Washington Post has apparently gone off the deep end. It has actually penned an editorial suggesting that Amazon and the Postal Service merge. “Sure, there are a lot of details to work out; the Postal Service isn’t Amazon’s typical rinky-dink acquisition, and the financials could be challenging even for chief executive Jeff Bezos’s ever-permissive investors. But with no obvious … Read More
Looking forward: Ten reasons to think twice about Metro Post
In Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel Looking Backward, written in 1887, a young man falls asleep and wakes up in the year 2000. It’s a romance as well as a sci-fi story, so the time-traveling hero soon meets a young lady who helps introduce him to the brave new world of the future. Naturally enough, one of the first things they do … Read More
Posta Service drops plan to close Old Chelsea post office
Chelsea Now: Its days as the go-to place for stamp-dispensing vending machines are long gone — but Old Chelsea Station is here to stay. After nearly a year of community forums, petitions, electronic missives and snail mail outreach, the United Stated Postal Service (USPS) recently told elected officials that a proposal to sell its 217 West 18th Street post office has … Read More
Bethesda Post Office mural to reemerge at Regional Center
Bethesda Now: It’s an important symbol of the New Deal era based on a piece of Bethesda history. But for the last 17 months, the old Bethesda Post Office mural has been sitting in Postal Service storage. On Wednesday, the 1939 mural of the Bethesda Farm Women’s Market that was proudly displayed in the old Bethesda Post Office will be re-installed … Read More
Post office becomes hub after tornado
The Washington Post Office has become a beehive of activity since the tornado hit on Nov. 17. Tucked in a residential neighborhood only a block from Washington Square, the quaint brick office has had thousands of residents come in to pick up their mail daily because the tornado had either taken out everything, or service to their houses had to … Read More
Parking Troubles Patrons at New Santa Monica Post Office (“It sucks”)
Santa Monica Lookout: "Five months after the US Postal Service shuttered Downtown Santa Monica’s 75-year-old post office, patrons are still adjusting. For many, that means doing their postal-related business at the new location, which the USPS opened on July 1, at Seventh Street and Olympic Boulevard… While the reviews of the new location — a former sorting station converted into … Read More
Questions about plans for New Canaan, Conn., PO relocation
The Postal Service reaffirmed its commitment to servicing the town and people of New Canaan Monday after some confusion during the Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday morning in which their desire to remain in town was questioned. "For some reason the assumption was made the Post Office was no longer committed to keeping postal operations in New Canaan," said Christine Dugas, … Read More
Wall Street Journal: New Route to Stop Sale of Berkeley, Calif., Post Office
Community groups and elected officials around the country are protesting as the cash-starved U.S. Postal Service shuts down and sells post offices in a bid to raise money and cut expenses. The Wall Street Journal focuses on the efforts to stop the sale of the historic post office in Berkeley. Watch the video here. Read more.
Historic Fort Worth post office headed for sale
The Postal Service will brief the Fort Worth City Council today on the possibility of closing and selling the historic downtown post office on Lancaster Avenue. The plan is to relocate retail services to a smaller leased space. The city of Fort Worth has contemplated buying the building as a potential City Hall since 2004. Mayor Betsy Price said the city … Read More
Why I did it and what’s at stake: Shining the light on NSAs
BY MARK JAMISON A couple of weeks ago I filed a motion with the Postal Regulatory Commission requesting access to the documents related to the Negotiated Service Agreement (NSA) on the program to deliver Amazon parcels on Sundays. As I write this, the PRC has not yet ruled on my request, but regardless of what happens, I hope a useful … Read More
Postal Workers plan to picket Staples stores
Mark Dimondstein, the recently elected president of the American Postal Workers Union, has announced that his union is preparing to picket Staples stores in protest against the Postal Service's latest plan to put contract post offices inside of Staples stores. “This is a direct assault on our jobs and on public postal services,” Dimondstein said on Nov. 26. “The APWU supports the expansion of … Read More
