Albany Post Office

Decision 6 years ago still yields citations

Written August 16th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 29 responses.

See that little yellow thing on the windshield? It’s a parking ticket, and it illustrates that a decision Albany city officials made six years ago still serves to irritate some people.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany Post Office, back-in parking, downtown parking, left-hand back-in parking, post office parking

Contract post office closes; reopening uncertain

Written June 3rd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

There had been a satellite post office in the Carriage House Plaza, the strip mall in Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood, for 40-some years. Now it is closed. It’s an open question whether a new one will reopen there, somewhere else, or not at all.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Post Office, Carriage House Plaza, contract postal units, post office, United States Postal Service

A turnaround in angled back-in parking

Written July 5th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 17 responses.

Well, what do you know. After more than a year, the left-side, back-in, angled parking on Second Avenue in Albany may no longer be an issue

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany Post Office, angled back-in parking, diagonal parking

Left angled backing in, still too weird?

Written April 9th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

Still not completely catching on, is it, this required back-in parking on the left side of one-way Second Avenue on the south side of the post office.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany Post Office, back-in parking

Headway on church move and PO

Written July 24th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

The mayor’s work group on historic Albany properties is making headway on its two projects: moving and restoring the former Cumberland Presbyterian Church and contacting the Postal Service about finding another site for its downtown post office.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Post Office, cumberland church

It’s back! Postal convenience!

Written July 7th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

This is not the kind of breaking news that in the old days might have stopped the press, but from the standpoint of convenience it’s a big deal: The drive-up drop box outside the Albany Post Office on First Avenue has been restored.

Posted in: News, Uncategorized
Tags: Albany Post Office, Postal Service

Albany postmaster: Move? Why?

Written May 15th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Albany’s new postmaster has been hearing about the idea that the post office should move. But she has a question: “Why should we move when we own this building?”

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Carousel, Albany Post Office, Albany postmaster, post office moving