TheGardenIsland.com: United States Postal Service representatives will return to Kauai on Oct. 11 to bring the community up to speed on the potential relocation of the Lihue post office. The meeting is set for 5 p.m. at War Memorial Convention Hall, and USPS real estate specialist Greg Shelton will be there to answer questions. The Rice Street post office’s … Read More
The coconuts are in the mail: Citizens challenge proposal to close the Lihue Post Office (video)
The Postal Service is planning to close the post office in Lihue, Hawaii, and to sell the building, a historic structure built in 1939 during the New Deal that is on the Hawaii State Register and the National Register of Historic Places. The Postal Service plans to relocate retails services to a USPS facility at the airport. This video features the public meeting on the proposed … Read More
Help Save the Lihue Post Office
Historic Hawaii Foundation: The post office in Lihue, Hawaii, is on the Hawai‘i State Register and the National Register of Historic Places. The Postal Service is now planning to “relocate” the post office and sell the building. This is the first stand-alone post office on Kaua‘i built in 1939. The original proposed design, a Depression-era mission-style fortress, was met by a storm of … Read More
USPS mulls closing historic New Deal post office in Lihue, Hawaii
As reported in HawaiiNewsNow, U.S. Postal Service is considering closing the Lihue post office on Kauai, but the public still has the opportunity to weigh in on the decision. Officials posted a sign at the location on Rice Street, saying the building is no longer necessary for postal operations. This location is the only one in town, notes the news article. The … Read More