USPS Proposing Relocation Of Marina Del Rey Branch Post Office

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is proposing the relocation of Marina Del Rey Branch Post Office, 4766 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey CA 90292, to a new location that has not yet been determined. The Marina Del Rey Branch is a leased facility and USPS has been notified that the lease will not be renewed….

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USPS OIG Blog: Post Office Relocations – Having Your Say

People care a lot about their local post offices, at least if the number of news stories on the topic and the comments we receive on our blog and Audit Project pages are indications. For some, the neighborhood Post Office serves as everything from the source of a community’s name and identity, to a spot…

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Boston’s South Station-Postal Service deal is long overdue

Rain or snow, the Postal Service always delivers. But not this time. The state wants to take over the post office’s Fort Point Channel property to make way for a $1 billion expansion of South Station, which sits next door. The federal agency won’t budge, saying the state isn’t offering a rich enough deal for…

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Highway project, meant to demolish Spring Branch TX post office, now goes around it

(September 25, 2014) SPRING BRANCH — To state transportation officials, a new detour of U.S. 281 around the post office here is just a temporary glitch in an otherwise successful $30.5 million project to widen the heavily-used highway. Once the federal facility relocates, a contractor will demolish the building and put down the last few…

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LETTER: Postal service regrets inconvenience caused by serving customers from a trailer

Re: “Bad experience with postal service” (Rabble Rouser, Sept. 4) (September 21, 2014) We certainly recognize the challenges of serving customers from a trailer but our options were limited when we were unable to extend our lease at the Ellisburg location. The options were to either temporarily suspend services at the former Ellisburg Station and…

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Union, along with community protest USPS relocating Florence, SC processing facility (video)

(September 20, 2014) FLORENCE, S.C. – People of different walks of life, bonded by one issue gathered in front of post office in Florence Saturday morning to protest the departure of the postal service’s processing facility. “It’s a variety of trying to help save jobs and service, good service and social responsibility. It’s all in…

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Unions protest Postal Service processing plant relocation from Industry to Santa Ana

(September 19, 2014) More than 50 people picketed a U.S. Postal Service facility in Industry where union members say plans to relocate first-class mail processing to Orange County will result in big delays to San Gabriel Valley customers. The union members, chanting that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe wanted to “destroy” the postal service, said they…

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Postal Service “Right-Sizing” Not Popular In Humboldt (audio)

(September 8, 2014) The United States Postal Service has been losing money every year since 2007; in total, nearly $45 billion. One attempt to remedy the situation has been the consolidation of mail processing centers nationwide. Three slated for relocation are in our area: Redding, Eugene, and Eureka. Residents in Eureka are responding to the…

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