USPS OIG Report: Deceased Lessors

Background The U.S. Postal Service leases more than 23,000 properties and pays annual rent of over $800 million. The Facilities organization negotiates, executes, and renews expiring leases. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) developed a predictive risk model that analyzes various attributes of Postal Service facility leases, including those with deceased lessors….

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City of Pembroke Pines sells old post office, makes $5.7M profit

The massive postal distribution center here, which once processed tens of thousands of letters and parcels daily, will undergo a major transformation — and provide a healthy boost to city coffers. Last October the city bought the 27-acre site at the corner of Dykes Road and Pines Boulevard for $17.8 million. Tuesday, officials announced it…

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Historic Houston post office headed for demolition

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…

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APWU: Statement by  Dimondstein on USPS OIG Report on Questionable Sales of Historic Post Offices by USPS’s Real Estate Firm, CBRE

For Immediate Release 04/29/2015 – Washington – The U.S. Postal Service belongs to the people of this country. We must not permit postal executives and the Board of Governors to sell our beautiful historic buildings at a discount; nor should we permit CBRE to drain the Postal Service treasury with lease deals that benefit the…

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Berkeley post office: Judge asks USPS to rescind documents

By Judith Scherr – March 27, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO — The fight to save the historic downtown Berkeley post office has moved from raucous rallies on the post office steps to the hushed 19th-floor courtroom of United States District Court Judge William Alsup. On Thursday morning, the judge considered a motion by the United States…

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Fight to save Stamford post office suffers another setback

By Elizabeth Kim – March 5, 2015 STAMFORD — A legal battle spearheaded by preservationists to prevent the redevelopment of the city’s downtown historic post office was dealt another defeat this week after the Postal Regulatory Commission dismissed their complaint over the sale and closure of the Atlantic Street post office. In its decision issued late…

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US Postal Service is selling its huge distribution center in Pembroke Pines, FL

By Brian Ballou – February 17, 2015 The cavernous U.S. Postal Service distribution center here buzzed with activity for nearly two decades. Then the the Internet choked off business and the operation moved two years ago to Miami-Dade County as part of a nationwide cost-cutting effort. Now the 345,377 square-foot facility, more than double the…

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Historic Plant City post office discontinued, headed for sale

(February 8, 2015) Earlier this week, the Postal Service announced that the historic post office on Reynolds Street In downtown Plant City, Florida, is being discontinued. It’s the first such discontinuance in over 16 months. The Plant City post office has been closed since June 2013, when the Postal Service shut down the 1935 facility…

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