Historic Houston post office headed for demolition

Posted on May 9, 2015May 9, 2015 by 21cpw

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…

Editorial: Wish we could return this Bronx post office sale to sender

Posted on September 22, 2014September 22, 2014 by 21cpw

News editor rides subway back to his old neighborhood to inspect the Bronx General Post Office where his father once worked nights, loading mail onto delivery trucks. The US Postal Service recently announced the stately building on the Grand Concourse has been sold. I grew up in the Bronx, the son of a career postal…