Cape May County Herald: The rusting trailer sits in the parking lot adjacent to the Martin Luther King Community Center on West Main Street. The trailer is an unlikely home for a semi-independent federal agency. This one houses the United States Post Office for ZIP code 08252. Whitesboro, New Jersey, is an enclave of about 2,200 individuals on 3.6-square miles … Read More
Rolling Meadows, IL, tries to get post office to come back
Daily Herald: Nearly six years after the Rolling Meadows, Ill., post office closed, residents and local officials are trying to get it back. Mayor Len Prejna is working with the offices of U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg and Peter Roskam of Wheaton to lobby U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan. Dave Whitney, a community volunteer and member of the city’s … Read More
Post office in Temple, ME, closing March 24 over lease issue
Sun Journal: The Temple, Maine, post office will close March 24 at the end of the business day, because the building owner is terminating the lease March 31, U.S. Postal Service communications specialist Steve Doherty said. “We have been actively looking for a new location within Temple and are optimistic about having something in place by that time,” Doherty said. If not, residents … Read More
Post Office discontinuances and suspensions: A decade in review
The Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission are currently working on the annual compliance review. The goal of the ACR, as stated in 39 U.S.C. §3652, is to determine if during the previous fiscal year the Postal Service has met all of the rate setting and service goals of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. The review deals primarily with the issue of … Read More
Downtown post office in Grand Island, Neb., could close by Memorial Day
Grand Island Independent: Postal operations in Grand Island, Neb., may shift from the main post office downtown to the facility at 3835 Old Potash Highway by the end of May. Postal employees are tentatively shooting for Memorial Day weekend to make the move. The U.S. Postal Service announced last year that it plans to abandon the main post office by … Read More
Retail service temporarily suspended at Milan Station PO in Richmond, VA
13NewsNow: Retail services have been suspended at the Milan Station Post Office in Norfolk, Virginia, on Wednesday. The Postal Service is working with the landlord to reopen the building located at 3800 Colley Avenue as soon as possible. Delivery services will not be impacted. Until service can be restored, customers can pick up their Post Office Box mail at Norfolk … Read More
Postal Service Workers Are Shouldering the Burden for Amazon
Nation Magazine: Every day postal trucks drop off about 4,000 packages at a US Postal Service station in central Tennessee, where they’re unloaded by a team of around six USPS employees. Each person grabs a box, rushes to the only scanning machine, runs the bar code, and then places it in the proper gurney for its route. The process takes … Read More
Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers
PoliticusUSA: Facebook Inc will start using postcards sent by U.S. mail later this year to verify the identities and location of people who want to purchase U.S. election-related advertising on its site, a senior company executive said on Saturday. The postcard verification is Facebook’s latest effort to respond to criticism from lawmakers, security experts and election integrity watchdog groups that … Read More
USPS is mum on plans to reopen Zanoni, MO, post office
Ozark County Times: Thursday, Feb. 8, was the deadline for area residents to submit proposals and offers for a site to be leased for the Zanoni, MO, post office “alternate quarters” being proposed by the U.S. Postal Service. But USPS personnel involved with the matter declined to provide any information about the USPS plan Monday. USPS real estate specialist Vic … Read More
University looks to renovate historic post office in Florence, SC
Renovations planned for an old post office in downtown Florence, SC, are on hold after Francis Marion University announced the multi-million-dollar project last February. University officials said they expected to start moving into the old post office building this year, but they’re still waiting on the funds to move forward with the project. FMU President Dr. Fred Carter said with the … Read More
As Work Space, Old Post Offices Have a Timeless Allure
New York Times: The Postal Service moved out of its longtime main post office in downtown Chicago in 1997, but ideas for remaking the Art Deco behemoth never gained traction. The huge building sat vacant, a far cry from the time when workers could sort up to 35 million letters a day there and residents posted mail in its elegant lobby, … Read More
New Haven, Conn., post office in jeopardy of closing
nbcconnecticut.com: One of the few postal facilities in New Haven, Conn., might soon be closing. The United States Postal Service has circulated a notice to post office box users that the Federal Station facility on Chapel Street in downtown New Haven is being considered for closure, due in part to a lack of use. That notice said in part, “… … Read More
Postal Service finalizes decision to relocate downtown post office in Muskogee, OK
Stillwater News Press: U.S. Postal Service officials issued a final decision to relocate its downtown retail service center in Muskogee, Oklahoma. In a letter dated Jan. 31, officials said the post office will move from its West Okmulgee Avenue location to a suite at Arrowhead Mall. The planned relocation — a process that was made public in July 2015 — was … Read More
Reasnor, Iowa, post office closed for emergency suspension
The Postal Service announced Wednesday what it’s calling a temporary closure of the post office in Reasnor, Iowa, but the Postal Service said there is no timetable to reopen the location. In a press release, the postal service said all postal operations at the Reasnor office will be relocated to the U.S. Post Office in Monroe at 117 W. Marion … Read More
How to rent a piece of history: JLL’s USPS Properties for Lease
Last summer Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) replaced CBRE as the Postal Service’s exclusive provider of real estate services. As stated on the USPS page on its website, JLL is “the transaction manager and exclusive broker for USPS’ 280 million-square-foot U.S. portfolio.” JLL is responsible for negotiating leases on 25,500 properties the Postal Service leases from private owners, brokering the sale of … Read More
