So many people turned out on Tuesday Feb. 26 to meet with USPS over the potential sale of the downtown post office building that there was overflow outside the Berkeley City Council Chamber and in front of City Hall. Photo: Tracey Taylor On Tuesday, the US Post Office listened to around 50 Berkeley residents tell […]
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Post office public hearing to focus on Berkeley sale plan
Protesters made their views known last year about the proposal to sell the downtown Berkeley post office building. Photo: Daniel Parks The United States Postal Service is holding a public meeting tonight to discuss the proposal to relocate the downtown Berkeley Post Office and sell its existing building at 2000 Allston Way. The USPS says the sale is necessary […]
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Berkeley discusses future of main post office
The USPS plans to sell Berkeley’s main post office. Photo: DH Parks On Tuesday night, the City Council’s subcommittee on the main post office met and heard public comment on the proposed sale of the historic building. Berkeleyside was there, live tweeting. Read our Storify on the meeting: [View the story “Berkeley discusses future of […]
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Berkeley mailboxes: Now you see them, now you don’t
USPS admits removing some Berkeley collection boxes in error. Seven have been replaced. Photo: wikimedia Last month Liza Lutzker noticed that in the space of a week, three out of her four neighborhood USPS mailboxes, all within walking distance of her Berkeley home, had disappeared. Lutzker wasn’t the only Berkeley resident to notice that mailboxes were being […]
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Protesters take ‘Save Post Office’ demo to San Francisco
Campaigners hoping to halt the sale of the downtown Berkeley Post Office took their protest to San Francisco on Dec. 4. Photo: Harvey Smith Campaigners who hope to persuade the U.S. Post Office not to sell Berkeley’s main post office at 2000 Allston Way took their protest to San Francisco on Tuesday, Dec. 4. This followed on […]
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Rally held to protest sale of Berkeley’s main Post Office
Protesters held a rally outside downtown Berkeley’s main post office Wednesday to make clear their opposition to its sale. Photo: Kaia Diringer Protesters held a rally outside downtown Berkeley’s main post office Wednesday to make clear their opposition to its sale. Photo: Kaia Diringer Several dozen people gathered outside the downtown Berkeley post office Wednesday to protest […]
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Developer eyes Berkeley’s historic post office
The interior of the Main Post Office at 2000 Allston Way. It is landmarked on the National Register of Historic Places. Photo: Charlotte Wayne. While the City Council unanimously passed a declaration Tuesday night asking the United States Postal Service not to sell Berkeley’s Main Post Office, an award-winning developer who specializes in historic properties […]
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Dozens rally to save Berkeley’s historic post office
About 100 people gathered outside the main Berkeley post office to protests its planned sale. Photo: Charlotte Wayne Dozens of people carrying banners and outrage turned up at the Main Post Office on Allston Way Tuesday evening, to rally against its planned sale and celebrate its “almost 100th” birthday. Holding signs that read “Stop the […]
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Chances are slim of stopping sale of Berkeley post office
Downtown Berkeley Post Office. Photo: D.H. Parks When the residents of Venice, CA found out in July 2011 that their 1939 post office was being put up for sale, they rallied to fight it. They protested, handed out flyers, collected thousands of signatures, sent letters to the U.S. Postal Service, and even formally petitioned the […]
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Second postal site in Berkeley for sale
An aerial view of 1150 Eighth Street. The post office has put the vacant lot next door to the processing facility on the market for $2.3 million. Photo: Google Earth An aerial view of 1150 Eighth Street. The post office has put the vacant lot next door to the processing facility on the market for […]
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Postal service plans sale of Berkeley’s main post office
The Post Office’s Renaissance-style arcade along Allston Way. Photo: Tracey Taylor The Post Office’s Renaissance-style arcade along Allston Way. Photo: Tracey Taylor Berkeley’s main post office, a distinguished Renaissance Revival work completed in 1914, is to be sold by the financially troubled US Postal Service. A spokeperson for USPS told Berkeleyside today that all carrier […]
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A plea to save Park Station post office
No sooner did word get out that the Park Station post office at 2900 Sacramento Street would be closing on April 30 than community advocates launched another effort to save it. Steveanne Auerbach, who has been deeply involved the last 18 months with the fight to keep the post office open, got on the phone […]
