May 8, 2015 Next week the Postal Service will close the post office and processing center on Franklin Street in downtown Houston. It’s a historic building, eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, but it looks as though it is headed for demolition. In a “memorandum of agreement” about the disposal, the Postal Service…
By Susan Cloke – March 28, 2015 Wonderful mailman and mailwoman stories are the norm in Santa Monica. But post office stories are of long lines, waiting until it’s your turn and then having the person close for an unexplained reason, and counter clerks who often look as if being behind the counter is forced…
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…
NEW BEDFORD — Mayor Jon Mitchell and the city’s congressional delegation have written separate letters urging the United States Postal Service not to close and relocate the downtown post office. Mitchell submitted a letter and a petition signed by more than 200 city residents opposing the move of the post office, an historic 1915 Classical…
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…
