USPS makes the wrong decision on Berkeley’s Post Office

We’ve been listening to people in Berkeley and what we hear is that the sale of our post office is not what our community wants. The Postal Service has not heard us yet: We will get their attention. To do so we must all speak and act together. 

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We were hopeful that the Postal Service would agree to work with the City of Berkeley to keep full postal services at 2000 Allston Way, maintain USPS ownership of the building, and realize long-term financial advantages for the Postal Service. 
Instead Monday afternoon the USPS issued a decision to proceed with the “relocation” and sale of our historic 99-year old Main Post Office. 
Perhaps as a concession to our community USPS offers this language:

• There will be a marketing alternative to keep a right-sized retail presence in a portion of the existing Berkeley Post Office.
  

Anyone can request a review of the decision by sending a letter postmarked by May 7, 2013 to:

Vice President, Facilities
Facilities Implementation – Pacific Area
1300 Evans Ave. Ste. 200
San Francisco CA 94188-0200

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The fifteen day time line for a review request is consistent with the time granted to other California communities. But shouldn’t we have been given thirty days to request a review?  That’s what a reading of the federal regulation and the time line recently used for review requests on the Bronx General Post Office indicate.

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