The U.S. Postal Service is pushing back against a city proposal to limit development at its downtown Berkeley post office property, which has been up for sale since 2012. Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council is slated to approve that proposal, to establish more restrictive development standards in Berkeley’s civic center on nine parcels, including…
Union Member and Retired Postal Worker John Dennie filed a civilian complaint with the criminal division of the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York on September 20, 2014.
Late last year, the Postal Service announced that it would not proceed with its controversial plan to sell the Old Chelsea post office at 217 West 18th Street in Manhattan. Now the Postal Service has decided it wants to sell the air rights above the historic building. According to a letter to the New York…
(September 4, 2014) The New York Daily News is reporting that the Postal Service has sold the Bronx General Post Office to Youngwoo & Associates. Back in February, The Real Deal had reported that Youngwoo was proposing to use the site to build a marketplace in the vein of the company’s unsuccessful plan for the…
(August 29, 2014) The Bronx General Post Office has been sold. There’s no word yet on who the buyer is or what the plans for the building are, but the post office was definitely sold two weeks ago. On the USPS-CBRE website, the listing says simply, “Sold.” The Postal Service had made no official announcement…
May 1, 2014 – (This article appears in the May-June 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Debby Szeredy, Executive Vice President For many years most of our membership has left too much of the fighting for jobs, better wages and our rights and benefits to stewards and officers. It’s not enough. We all…
The U.S. Postal Service’s bizarre decision to sell beloved old buildings to raise quick cash has created angst across the country, writes syndicated columnist Froma Harrop. VENICE, Calif. — This beach community is L.A.’s latest magnet for hip, cool and gentrification. Modest cottages currently sell for an immodest $2 million, even as homeless people, sprawled…
